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It is really good when you search for vague terms, but it seems to come at the cost of ruining precision technical search. Google also censors some results in

by xfitm3 7y ago

It is really good when you search for vague terms, but it seems to come at the cost of ruining precision technical search. Google also censors some results in controversial categories, where Bing/Yahoo return what I am looking for. I don't trust a search engine that censors entire categories of results. I am not an adwords user but anecdotes in another HN thread seems to affirm that Google is due to be disrupted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667484

9588 7y ago
to give a fun example for those who didnt run into this silly agenda. "free energy" use to produce countless results that now require extra keywords. Under "free energy suppression" you find professionally crafted hatemongering. The actual list of claimants is huge, non of it is here. https://peswiki.com/directory:suppression#Wiki_2796702 https://peswiki.com/directory:suppression#Wiki_2796702 "free energy device" also produces really crappy results compared to what it was. It only seems like things argued not to exist may or must be scrubbed from seach results. Astrology wasn't scrubed nor was any religion. Everything has its history too!
- larnmar 7y ago
  I just searched for “free energy” with both google and bing and with both engines got a combination of the use in actual thermodynamics plus “omg free energy device exist coverup!” type results.
theamk 7y ago
What kind of technical queries are you running? I just searched for "HLCD0438 datasheet" on Google and DDG. I think it is a great example of very precise, and very techinical query. DDG's first page was only fake sites and wrong answers. Google gave me the right answer right away (in the positions 2 and 3) (for those who don't know legacy electronics: I was looking for the box with labeled pins, like on first page of https://www.turus.com.tr/class/INNOVAEditor/assets/PDF/MM58438.pdf https://www.turus.com.tr/class/INNOVAEditor/assets/PDF/MM584... )

by xfitm3 7y ago

9588 7y ago

to give a fun example for those who didnt run into this silly agenda. "free energy" use to produce countless results that now require extra keywords. Under "free energy suppression" you find professionally crafted hatemongering. The actual list of claimants is huge, non of it is here. https://peswiki.com/directory:suppression#Wiki_2796702 https://peswiki.com/directory:suppression#Wiki_2796702 "free energy device" also produces really crappy results compared to what it was. It only seems like things argued not to exist may or must be scrubbed from seach results. Astrology wasn't scrubed nor was any religion. Everything has its history too!

larnmar 7y ago
I just searched for “free energy” with both google and bing and with both engines got a combination of the use in actual thermodynamics plus “omg free energy device exist coverup!” type results.

theamk 7y ago

What kind of technical queries are you running? I just searched for "HLCD0438 datasheet" on Google and DDG. I think it is a great example of very precise, and very techinical query. DDG's first page was only fake sites and wrong answers. Google gave me the right answer right away (in the positions 2 and 3) (for those who don't know legacy electronics: I was looking for the box with labeled pins, like on first page of https://www.turus.com.tr/class/INNOVAEditor/assets/PDF/MM58438.pdf https://www.turus.com.tr/class/INNOVAEditor/assets/PDF/MM584... )