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I am using DuckDuckGo and my experience is completely different, but I might be missing something. Do you have an example of a search you've done where the res

I am using DuckDuckGo and my experience is completely different, but I might be missing something. Do you have an example of a search you've done where the results were much better from Google Search than from DuckDuckGo?

mrweasel 6y ago
My experience is that we reached a point where if DuckDuckGo can’t find something, then neither can Google. For local search Google is still a little better, but they choosen to drown out actual results with ads.
- Garlef 6y ago
  This might be true. But my point was that DuckDuckGo costs me too much time. To rephrase it: DuckDuckGo is more expensive to use. (At least for me).
- greshario 5y ago
  Not my experience for dev related searches. I assume this is because Google has learned I always search for JS stuff and I've gotten used to that so I'm not specific enough in my searches on DDG.
Garlef 6y ago
> Do you have an example of a search ... Due to the very topic this HN post is about, I don't think this is a good method - your results might be vastly different from mine. But let's look at the number of relevant results among the top 5 results for some thing I recently wanted to learn about. "Comprehension categories" - a rather specific term from category theory https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehension+category https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehension+category https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comprehension+category https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comprehension+category Google: 5/5 (for me) DuckDuckGo: 1/5 (for me)
- mdpye 6y ago
  You have to be explicit about the context if you've chosen to dump the implicit bundle of context. "comprehension categories category theory" 5/5 I'd hardly say it's 2 to 10 minutes extra work, especially for such an obvious example
  - smichel17 6y ago
    "Comprehension categories theory" works as well.
lehi 5y ago
> Do you have an example of a search you've done where the results were much better from Google Search than from DuckDuckGo? Here you go: https://imgur.com/a/CssDXS3 https://imgur.com/a/CssDXS3

mrweasel 6y ago

My experience is that we reached a point where if DuckDuckGo can’t find something, then neither can Google. For local search Google is still a little better, but they choosen to drown out actual results with ads.

Garlef 6y ago
This might be true. But my point was that DuckDuckGo costs me too much time. To rephrase it: DuckDuckGo is more expensive to use. (At least for me).
greshario 5y ago
Not my experience for dev related searches. I assume this is because Google has learned I always search for JS stuff and I've gotten used to that so I'm not specific enough in my searches on DDG.

Garlef 6y ago

> Do you have an example of a search ... Due to the very topic this HN post is about, I don't think this is a good method - your results might be vastly different from mine. But let's look at the number of relevant results among the top 5 results for some thing I recently wanted to learn about. "Comprehension categories" - a rather specific term from category theory https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehension+category https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehension+category https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comprehension+category https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comprehension+category Google: 5/5 (for me) DuckDuckGo: 1/5 (for me)

mdpye 6y ago
You have to be explicit about the context if you've chosen to dump the implicit bundle of context. "comprehension categories category theory" 5/5 I'd hardly say it's 2 to 10 minutes extra work, especially for such an obvious example
- smichel17 6y ago
  "Comprehension categories theory" works as well.

lehi 5y ago

> Do you have an example of a search you've done where the results were much better from Google Search than from DuckDuckGo? Here you go: https://imgur.com/a/CssDXS3 https://imgur.com/a/CssDXS3