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Google has one killer feature: It (barely, but) understands. It can find sentences that use different structure but meaning is similar. It can find result using
by TomMarius 8y ago
Google has one killer feature: It (barely, but) understands. It can find sentences that use different structure but meaning is similar. It can find result using synonyms instead of the original words. And so on. Google also understands simple plain language questions ("how do i do ... on ford mondeo mk4" works perfectly - but only Google can do that). It is even able to detect irrelevant results - e.g. it really filters just MK4 mondeos when I am looking for something, but I also had MK3 and putting MK3 into the query really did filter MK4 results away. I never had such success and productivity with any other search engine, and I really tried to like DuckDuckGo.
- reitanqild 8y ago> It (barely, but) understands. It can find sentences that use different structure but meaning is similar. Can't say I see meaningful difference between DDG and Google on this anymore. DDG keeps getting better and Google has been on a downward spiral for some time. > It can find result using synonyms instead of the original words. DDG does this as well. And unlike Google they aren't driving me crazy by ignoring my double quotes and verbatim searches.
- agumonkey 8y agoi'm sorry but ddg fails very rapidly on anything that requires semantics
- TomMarius 8y agoI have to agree with the other commenter, Google understands semantics, DDG just replaces words, working even worse than without it in some cases. I seriously hope they will improve it soon (and I donated some money to them), I'd love to switch.