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I found that DDG is okay for two types of queries: common everyday topics and technical queries. For many other niche topic, it’s not good at all. I use DDG as
by powersnail 7y ago
I found that DDG is okay for two types of queries: common everyday topics and technical queries. For many other niche topic, it’s not good at all.
I use DDG as the default and have been doing so for many years. I still have to add !g every time I search for violin related questions. The results are often just not relevant at all.
I think DDG still has a long way to grow to be a 100% replacement for Google outside the tech and science community.
- maest 7y agoRegarding technical queries, they consistently return links to the python 2 docs, never python 3. What I assume people do is they click on the python 2 docs then change the version on the python website. So, from bings perspective it looks like people want the python 2 links. It always frustrates me and makes looking stuff up longer than needed.
- jakeogh 7y agoqwant hands back py3 links: https://lite.qwant.com/?q=python+builtin+exceptions https://lite.qwant.com/?q=python+builtin+exceptions
- ConceptJunkie 7y agoYeah, this is what I always do as well. Python is going EOL in less than two months. I hope that helps.
- gspetr 7y agoThere is a very easy workflow remedy for this, if DDG is your default search engine: type "!py [topic]" For example, I tried searching for "python lists" in my address bar (DDG is my default) and I got all sorts of garbage. Next, I typed "!py lists" and the browser immediately opened this page for me: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=lists https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=lists So that works really nice if what you need is Python's native docs. But there's more to "bang" syntax usage, now totaling over 13,000 bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang#bangs-list https://duckduckgo.com/bang#bangs-list
- m463 7y agoMaybe you need to run 2to3 on your search results? ;)