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DDG does support some search operands. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/resul

DDG does support some search operands. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
We're both correct. They support and ignore operands. "cats and dogs": Results for exact term "cats and dogs". If no results are found, we'll try to show related results. The entire point of using quotes (or + back in the day) is to limit the results to the search term. Fluffling up the results with stuff we aren't asking for forces us to consider and disregard each one of those unasked-for results - until we get frustrated and go to Google.
- sneak 5y ago
  Google does this shit too, to a slightly lesser extent.
  - WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
    Google once became as bad as DDG is. About 3 years ago they unwound that, a fair amount. Presently, I get some G searches w/ no results - which is helpful.
  - feanaro 5y ago
    This is painful to read. Instead of DDG noticing how much Google sucks at respecting operators and beating them at it, scoring praise from power users, they somehow managed to be even worse than Google.
- mikevin 5y ago
  I really dislike that kind of search because I'm forced to scan the results to see if they really contain what I'm looking for. Try searching "arm" with anything programming related term and count the articles about armchairs, it's infuriating.
- Dylan16807 5y ago
  That's not ignoring. If any results exist with the full quote, then it will only show you results with the full quote. Also google does the same thing all the time. Also I just tried to get that behavior on duck duck go and it didn't do it. For my test quote, with three words that appear together on many pages but never adjacent, it just said no results found. But if it works like google, it will tell you at the top of the page when there were no real results and it's serving fallback results. Look for that message instead of looking for a lack of results.

DDG does support some search operands. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago

We're both correct. They support and ignore operands. "cats and dogs": Results for exact term "cats and dogs". If no results are found, we'll try to show related results. The entire point of using quotes (or + back in the day) is to limit the results to the search term. Fluffling up the results with stuff we aren't asking for forces us to consider and disregard each one of those unasked-for results - until we get frustrated and go to Google.

sneak 5y ago
Google does this shit too, to a slightly lesser extent.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
  Google once became as bad as DDG is. About 3 years ago they unwound that, a fair amount. Presently, I get some G searches w/ no results - which is helpful.
- feanaro 5y ago
  This is painful to read. Instead of DDG noticing how much Google sucks at respecting operators and beating them at it, scoring praise from power users, they somehow managed to be even worse than Google.
mikevin 5y ago
I really dislike that kind of search because I'm forced to scan the results to see if they really contain what I'm looking for. Try searching "arm" with anything programming related term and count the articles about armchairs, it's infuriating.
Dylan16807 5y ago
That's not ignoring. If any results exist with the full quote, then it will only show you results with the full quote. Also google does the same thing all the time. Also I just tried to get that behavior on duck duck go and it didn't do it. For my test quote, with three words that appear together on many pages but never adjacent, it just said no results found. But if it works like google, it will tell you at the top of the page when there were no real results and it's serving fallback results. Look for that message instead of looking for a lack of results.