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Google search product as become progressively worse each year. DDG is not much better, I dont believe there is any good search product out there right now, how
by syshum 5y ago
Google search product as become progressively worse each year.
DDG is not much better, I dont believe there is any good search product out there right now, however for technical topics I often find DDG easier to find things from actual manual pages, or Knowledge bases where Google I just get lost of Marketing Blogs trying to sell me something
The ironically exception to this is some time Microsoft own documentation is harder to find on DDG (which is backed by bing) than on google... I think that largly has to do with MS terrible choice to remove technet, and break 50% of their links on the internet.
- qwertox 5y agoI've noticed that I've come to rely more and more on the expandable "Similar Questions" entries in Google, which contain text snippets with the answers to those questions and the linked document which is providing this text. Search engines without it feel pretty static, like what you get is what you see, and in order to improve your search you need to issue a new one.
- nyolfen 5y agogoogle seems to go out of its way to exclude results that match exact wording these days, even with quotes. this is incredibly frustrating, especially for technical searches. i halfheartedly switched to ddg a few years ago but it has become much more earnest in the last year. google is now run by committee or something.
- BasilPH 5y agoI agree. The only thing that irks me with DDG is that it ranks the official python docs too low. I often end up with results from w3school which I don't want to use. And unfortunately I can't remove domains from the search results.
- speedcoder 5y agoYes. It would be pretty cool if we could include a blocked-site list saying "please exclude these sites from my search results."
- magikaram 5y agohttps://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/97983/permanently-exclude-blacklist-site-from-search-results-on-duckduckgo#98015 https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/97983/permanentl... There is a workaround to blacklist certain results using an extension in conjunction with a script for it.
- speedcoder 5y agoWoot! Super cool. Thank you. That like also refers to https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist. Will check them out.
- karlicoss 5y agoI've added a keyword search bookmark in my Firefox recently, makes it search in 'verbatim' mode, yields slightly more reasonable results "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbs=li:1 https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbs=li:1"