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So the bangs (!) are super useful in DDG for handling the limitations it has. As others have mentioned Google still wins for super technical searches, but only
by joecool1029 5y ago
So the bangs (!) are super useful in DDG for handling the limitations it has. As others have mentioned Google still wins for super technical searches, but only just so. What we now see for Google results for any niche topics is an 'uncanny valley' of about half being valid results and the other half being regurgitated spam/phishing sites with domains that usually end in .it or .de.
- kjaftaedi 5y agoMaybe it's just me, but I can't figure out how to do technical searches in google anymore. If I put something like the name of an obscure powershell cmdlet in quotes, google ignores the quotes and then takes words in the cmdlet and searches for variations of them returning a mess of search results. I've tried using plus signs and all sorts of other stuff that used to work, but these days it seemingly just gives me what it thinks I want, rather than what I asked for.
- vdqtp3 5y agoI have the same problem. I've read that this is because Google is no longer returning results from indexing the web, it's returning results that people usually click on when searching similar things. Which is why you can search exact titles of webpages or exact text in quotes and it will fail to return the page in question.
- keneda7 5y agoAs a developer I agree with you. I try and use DDG for most of my every day stuff. However on complex coding issues I almost always find myself back on Google after a couple frustrating minutes on DDG. I feel like a lot of this has to do with what historical search data Google stores vs DDG.
- beepbooptheory 5y agoI just discovered `hn!` the other day lol
- mike_hock 5y agoI'm an Italo-German prince and just recently came into a huge fortune.