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Sadly DDG sometimes doesn’t work for very specific searches too. I have DDG as my default search in all browsers, but find myself typing !g too often. For exam

Sadly DDG sometimes doesn’t work for very specific searches too. I have DDG as my default search in all browsers, but find myself typing !g too often. For example, today I searched for “Salzstiegl ski club”. Not even on the first page in DDG, but the first result for Google. It makes me sad.

iso1631 5y ago
Preumably because the site is in German -- https://www.sc-salzstiegl.at/ https://www.sc-salzstiegl.at/ If my country is set to Germany it's the first result in DDG If my country is set to the UK I get lots of pages in English about it which are probably more likely to be what I would want If I search for "Skiclub Salzstiegl" though, it is the first result
- phillc73 5y ago
  I disagree. I specifically searched for Salzstiegl ski club, I don’t really care about the language, just return the website I am looking for. Why does Google return the correct result first, regardless of language? I also tried setting DDG to “All Regions” and the results were not better.
  - iso1631 5y ago
    By phrasing it that way you're searching in English, it seems a reasonable choice to return sites that are in English. If I search DDG for "US President", the first results are the English Wikipedia page for "President of the United States" and "List of presidents of the united states" If I search for "US-Präsident", I get "Liste der Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten" and "Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten - Wikipedia" from Germany wikipedia, and fairly high up is a link to zeit [0] That Zeit link doesn't appear if I search in English. It seems that DDG puts the language used of the search fairly high in the weighting. That's reasonable to me. If I search "Nicolas Sarkozy im Gefängnis", I get German stories about the French President. I can see both arguments, I don't think differing weights for language is an indictment of a search algorithm specifically though. [0] https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-02/joe-biden-us-praesident-russland-ukraine-konflikt?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-02/joe-biden-us-pra...

iso1631 5y ago

Preumably because the site is in German -- https://www.sc-salzstiegl.at/ https://www.sc-salzstiegl.at/ If my country is set to Germany it's the first result in DDG If my country is set to the UK I get lots of pages in English about it which are probably more likely to be what I would want If I search for "Skiclub Salzstiegl" though, it is the first result

phillc73 5y ago
I disagree. I specifically searched for Salzstiegl ski club, I don’t really care about the language, just return the website I am looking for. Why does Google return the correct result first, regardless of language? I also tried setting DDG to “All Regions” and the results were not better.
- iso1631 5y ago
  By phrasing it that way you're searching in English, it seems a reasonable choice to return sites that are in English. If I search DDG for "US President", the first results are the English Wikipedia page for "President of the United States" and "List of presidents of the united states" If I search for "US-Präsident", I get "Liste der Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten" and "Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten - Wikipedia" from Germany wikipedia, and fairly high up is a link to zeit [0] That Zeit link doesn't appear if I search in English. It seems that DDG puts the language used of the search fairly high in the weighting. That's reasonable to me. If I search "Nicolas Sarkozy im Gefängnis", I get German stories about the French President. I can see both arguments, I don't think differing weights for language is an indictment of a search algorithm specifically though. [0] https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-02/joe-biden-us-praesident-russland-ukraine-konflikt?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-02/joe-biden-us-pra...