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They shouldn't be in DDG. That's one of the pieces of intelligence we try to add on top. We try to not "correct" your query. Here's another example of a real se
by epi0Bauqu 16y ago
They shouldn't be in DDG. That's one of the pieces of intelligence we try to add on top. We try to not "correct" your query. Here's another example of a real search my wife did the other day that illustrates this point on both Google & Bing: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=suttle+renal http://duckduckgo.com/?q=suttle+renal vs. http://www.bing.com/search?q=suttle+renal http://www.bing.com/search?q=suttle+renal vs. http://www.google.com/#&q=suttle+renal http://www.google.com/#&q=suttle+renal
- sjs382 16y agoI love that you don't try to correct queries. I hate when Google auto-corrects my query and I need to click another link to get to my actual query. Thanks for that!
- yaix 16y agoOr you just "quote" your original misspelled query and Google will search for the misspelled version without any additional click.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoIt wasn't a misspelling though! That's the point. She is a cancer researcher and she meant that. Renal is for kidneys and Suttle is an author on various papers in the field.
- sjs382 16y agoQuotes provide you with exact match results. Putting quotes around an entire phrase isn't what I intend sometimes, and quoting each term in the query is just excessive. In that case, I'll just click the extra link...
- ZoFreX 16y agoA timesaver that might be useful on the edge cases is to prefix terms with a plus sign. +the +quick +brown +dog is easier to type than "the" "quick" "brown" "dog", and should have the same results.
- alecco 16y agoBut in this case DDG does give Google's auto-corrected (without even telling you!) and I bet it happens to many terms as it is mostly a proxy/filter of Bing.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoNo, actually they shouldn't be in there. Are you seeing them? If so it is a bug. It is not showing up on my computers.
- callahad 16y agoI'm still seeing it on tmbg, but thor and www seem fine: http://tmbg.duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag http://tmbg.duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag http://thor.duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag http://thor.duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag Edit: The same appears to be true for mbzrxpgjys and indoswiftjobinproduction Edit 2: Hey, that's weird. Adding a comma, semicolon, period, or other symbol to the beginning or end of the query makes the gamed results show up on top at thor and www as well. Seems to work for all the terms at issue: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag%2C http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hiybbprqag%2C http://duckduckgo.com/?q=----hiybbprqag---- http://duckduckgo.com/?q=----hiybbprqag----
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoYou're finding the edges of my intelligence layer :). Should be fixed now. Note that some of those servers don't get updated often.
- alecco 16y agoIt was there using those links when I posted, but not anymore.
- sjs382 16y agoAh. They were loading the same results as Google and Bing when I posted that. They aren't now.