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I have personally found that when searching for developer documentation, as you mentioned, unfortunately nothing beats Google. I can always find what I’m lookin
by jb1991 5y ago
I have personally found that when searching for developer documentation, as you mentioned, unfortunately nothing beats Google. I can always find what I’m looking for very quickly. But when I try DuckDuckGo, it’s a mess of irrelevant or weak pages.
- soco 5y agoI also noticed that, if DDG doesn't find it in my initial search, there's no way on earth I could game the search terms to actually find it. So if my first 1-2 searches give nothing I just add the !g...
- jb1991 5y agoI’ve learned just cut out the entire exploratory first couple of steps and just always use !g when searching for anything developer related.
- ldng 5y agoIt doesn't need to be better than Google, it just need to be better for its marketshare. If users are mostly dev, than it's a win.
- katsura 5y agoI noticed the exact same thing there. Usually, when I don't get results I just append !g after the search terms, and google yields much better results. But what I'm most bothered by DDG nowadays is that on my phone the first 2-3 results (which on a phone basically means the whole visible area) are quite frequently ads.
- wongarsu 5y agoSame thing with bing. It's a fine search engine for lots of things, but for searching documentation it's really weak, showing sites like w3schools and tutorialspoint far above the results I actually want. It kind of makes sense that w3schools would spend much more time on the SEO game than docs.python.org, but it just drives me back to google