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I've taken to using DDG and when I find that the results are unsatisfactory, I stick a '!g' at the start or the end of my query, and it redirects to the google

I've taken to using DDG and when I find that the results are unsatisfactory, I stick a '!g' at the start or the end of my query, and it redirects to the google results page.

xref 7y ago
Like I mentioned though, with no dates every page is unsatisfactory. I’m not gonna waste time clicking each link to look at the date before I devote time to reading it
- unforeseen9991 7y ago
  I JUST ran into this. It's not good for tech searches for this very reason. I was trying to look up an issue with an application, and every link I clicked on was from 7 years ago. I switched to google and instantly grabbed some ones from 2019
- m-p-3 7y ago
  This is the kind of feedback DDG should take seriously.
- your-nanny 7y ago
  then use DDG's time filter.
  - dingsbumps 7y ago
    That's tough when the only filters are "1 month", "1 week", and "1 day". Is there some way to get 1 year? I ask as a daily ddg user
IAmGraydon 7y ago
That seems like a good approach until you consider that you don’t know whether the results are unsatisfactory if you aren’t looking at both sets of results on each search. You can’t see what you don’t look at and you can’t know what you don’t know. Google may have a better result for you, but how would you know unless you search both engines?
- darkerside 7y ago
  That's not what satisfactory means.
- mathgeek 7y ago
  “Unsatisfactory” is an opinion-based comparison. If you find something that satisfies your desire, it’s satisfactory. I’d say your argument is more based on whether the results are more accurate, or “better” in some more concrete way.
mancerayder 7y ago
I was doing g! at work for tech searches so often I switched back. I gave it several months of effort. One example, I was googling an AWS service related question and the front page was blogs and garbage. g! had the official docs at the relevant part as the first result. This happens way too often, and I like to think not because of personalized results.
Engineering-MD 7y ago
You could use s! As an alternative to startpage (which serves google results but without google directly tracking you)

I've taken to using DDG and when I find that the results are unsatisfactory, I stick a '!g' at the start or the end of my query, and it redirects to the google results page.

xref 7y ago

Like I mentioned though, with no dates every page is unsatisfactory. I’m not gonna waste time clicking each link to look at the date before I devote time to reading it

unforeseen9991 7y ago
I JUST ran into this. It's not good for tech searches for this very reason. I was trying to look up an issue with an application, and every link I clicked on was from 7 years ago. I switched to google and instantly grabbed some ones from 2019
m-p-3 7y ago
This is the kind of feedback DDG should take seriously.
your-nanny 7y ago
then use DDG's time filter.
- dingsbumps 7y ago
  That's tough when the only filters are "1 month", "1 week", and "1 day". Is there some way to get 1 year? I ask as a daily ddg user

IAmGraydon 7y ago

That seems like a good approach until you consider that you don’t know whether the results are unsatisfactory if you aren’t looking at both sets of results on each search. You can’t see what you don’t look at and you can’t know what you don’t know. Google may have a better result for you, but how would you know unless you search both engines?

darkerside 7y ago
That's not what satisfactory means.
mathgeek 7y ago
“Unsatisfactory” is an opinion-based comparison. If you find something that satisfies your desire, it’s satisfactory. I’d say your argument is more based on whether the results are more accurate, or “better” in some more concrete way.

mancerayder 7y ago

I was doing g! at work for tech searches so often I switched back. I gave it several months of effort. One example, I was googling an AWS service related question and the front page was blogs and garbage. g! had the official docs at the relevant part as the first result. This happens way too often, and I like to think not because of personalized results.

Engineering-MD 7y ago

You could use s! As an alternative to startpage (which serves google results but without google directly tracking you)