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Now they can have awful search results again. I would love to be able to say "use ddg, they respect your privacy and they're almost as good as Google" but seve
by raffraffraff 6y ago
Now they can have awful search results again.
I would love to be able to say "use ddg, they respect your privacy and they're almost as good as Google" but several times today I got mind-bogglingly bad results from it. Same search in Google... Yes, these are the results I was looking for.
What's really odd is that i reran one of those searches just now and the results aren't actually as bad. Super confused.
- ubercow13 6y agoYes I have noticed that ddg is extremely inconsistent over time, sometimes for what I think are almost the same queries. It's also highly variable in its speed - Google is almost always instant, but ddg can vary from the same speed as Google one day, to taking many seconds to load a result the next.
- empressplay 6y agoI would speculate that DDG caches its results and then fuzzy-matches them with other search queries (maybe fuzzier and fuzzier based on load). So if you enter a similar query, you may get a previously-cached list of hits, which may or may not be as relevant as if your query was actually run. This is just speculation though
- djeiasbsbo 6y agoI would like to recommend this to you: https://searx.space https://searx.space. I have been getting great results across many instances! And while we're at it, also check out these projects: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious https://github.com/omarroth/invidious https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter