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The funnier thing to me is the people in the thread talking about how DuckDuckGo finds the "right" results. DuckDuckGo is just Yahoo. I think the results are s
by doctorpangloss 7y ago
The funnier thing to me is the people in the thread talking about how DuckDuckGo finds the "right" results.
DuckDuckGo is just Yahoo. I think the results are something like 99.9% the same, so whatever is the 0.1% they add, when I did the search, it results in maybe a slight difference in link ordering.
The reason it finds the "right" results is also the same reason its results are such garbage. And this is coming from someone whose default search is DuckDuckGo.
- Paianni 7y agoand Yahoo is just Bing nowadays.
- petargyurov 7y ago> its results are such garbage Whenever people complain about DDG's search results I am always a bit baffled. It works 95% of the time for me and that 5% is occurs when I am searching for the answer to some obscure bug. I know this is your word against mine but "garbage" is a bit of an exaggeration.
- k3liutZu 7y ago> 5% is occurs when I am searching for the answer to some obscure bug I think these are a majority of my searches, hence I had to switch back to google as DDG was almost never finding me any relevant result.
- swebs 7y agoTry Startpage. It uses Google results, but anonymized and without personalization.
- majjam 7y agoYou don't just use the bangs (g!)? Or is that what you mean by switching back?
- maest 7y agoFor balance, i find around 30% of results to be bad. One really annoying thing is that python searches keep surfacing the python2 official docs instead of the python3 ones. Ddg is my main search engine, but I find I fall back to g! queries more and more often.
- mda 7y ago5% is quite high.
- input_sh 7y agoYahoo doesn't have its own crawler for years now. Both of them are Bing under the hood: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2217.html https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2217.html I still prefer my Bing results without personalization, so I use DDG.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoDuckDuckGo is Bing without the tracking. Bing is generally a very good search engine, to be fair.
- petra 7y agoDoes Bing shows better respect to search operators, than Google's attitude - "i already know what you want" ?
- mkl 7y agoNot really (at least, not via DDG). Just like Google, it now frequently ignores or changes key words unless you quote them, and sometimes seems to ignore quoted words, as Google seems to. Both search engines have become quite frustrating (I primarily use DDG, and falling back on Google is hit and miss).
- raverbashing 7y agoAnd on top of that it seems "link spam" happens more on DDG (Not to mention the right side "Answer box" that throws me off a bit since that result is not on the list of links)