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Sorry to be that guy but what was going on? This is alarming as someone who uses DDG and youtube-dl kinda too much probably. Also if anyone else is slightly hu

by pkdpic 5y ago

Sorry to be that guy but what was going on? This is alarming as someone who uses DDG and youtube-dl kinda too much probably. Also if anyone else is slightly hung over and searches DDG in DDG and gets super confused for three seconds because DDG is a rapper apparently just know you aren't alone. I'm right here with you, whoever you are.

fuckcensorship 5y ago
These links should provide the additional context you’re looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044587 https://nitter.net/i/status/1515635886855233537 https://nitter.net/i/status/1515635886855233537
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jt2190 5y ago
From an April 17 Twitter thread from Gabriel Weinberg at DuckDuckGo: > ... [W]e are not "purging" YouTube-dl or The Pirate Bay and they both have actually been continuously available in our results if you search for them by name (which most people do). Our site: operator (which hardly anyone uses) is having issues which we are looking into. (Note that "site:" in his comment is how you restrict DDG searches to a specific domain e.g. "site:example.com") https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515636218691739653 https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515636218691739653
- naoqj 5y ago
  Did the original complaints of those sites disappearing mention the usage of the site: filter?
  - jt2190 5y ago
    Yes. > For example, searching for “site:thepiratebay.org” is supposed to return all results DuckDuckGo has indexed for The Pirate Bay’s main domain name. In this case, there are none. > This whole-site removal isn’t limited to The Pirate Bay either. When we do similar searches for ["site:1337x.to", "site:NYAA.se", "site:Fmovies.to", site:"Lookmovie.io"], and ["site:123moviesfree.net"], no results appear. https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and-youtube-dl-from-its-search-results-220415/ https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and...
- OJFord 5y ago
  That's incomplete though, when I tried it (in response to seeing it posted here a couple of days ago) I couldn't get any yt-dl.org search results, i.e. adding site: appeared to function correctly - no results.
- codetrotter 5y ago
  >> Our site: operator (which hardly anyone uses) is having issues which we are looking into I noticed problems with their site: operator too earlier today, and still now as well. In my case, when I used it in a search I saw that the word “site” itself was also bolded in some results. So it looks like it is using the operator itself also as a search term, which it shouldn’t. I find it surprising that hardly anyone uses it though.
  - whoopdedo 5y ago
    When you handle 10 million searches a day it's easy for even large groups of users to get lost in the crowd.
  - ikt 5y ago
    > I find it surprising that hardly anyone uses it though. Same! I use it for searching reddit all the time.
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by pkdpic 5y ago

fuckcensorship 5y ago

These links should provide the additional context you’re looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044587 https://nitter.net/i/status/1515635886855233537 https://nitter.net/i/status/1515635886855233537

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jt2190 5y ago

From an April 17 Twitter thread from Gabriel Weinberg at DuckDuckGo: > ... [W]e are not "purging" YouTube-dl or The Pirate Bay and they both have actually been continuously available in our results if you search for them by name (which most people do). Our site: operator (which hardly anyone uses) is having issues which we are looking into. (Note that "site:" in his comment is how you restrict DDG searches to a specific domain e.g. "site:example.com") https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515636218691739653 https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515636218691739653

naoqj 5y ago
Did the original complaints of those sites disappearing mention the usage of the site: filter?
- jt2190 5y ago
  Yes. > For example, searching for “site:thepiratebay.org” is supposed to return all results DuckDuckGo has indexed for The Pirate Bay’s main domain name. In this case, there are none. > This whole-site removal isn’t limited to The Pirate Bay either. When we do similar searches for ["site:1337x.to", "site:NYAA.se", "site:Fmovies.to", site:"Lookmovie.io"], and ["site:123moviesfree.net"], no results appear. https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and-youtube-dl-from-its-search-results-220415/ https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and...
OJFord 5y ago
That's incomplete though, when I tried it (in response to seeing it posted here a couple of days ago) I couldn't get any yt-dl.org search results, i.e. adding site: appeared to function correctly - no results.
codetrotter 5y ago
>> Our site: operator (which hardly anyone uses) is having issues which we are looking into I noticed problems with their site: operator too earlier today, and still now as well. In my case, when I used it in a search I saw that the word “site” itself was also bolded in some results. So it looks like it is using the operator itself also as a search term, which it shouldn’t. I find it surprising that hardly anyone uses it though.
- whoopdedo 5y ago
  When you handle 10 million searches a day it's easy for even large groups of users to get lost in the crowd.
- ikt 5y ago
  > I find it surprising that hardly anyone uses it though. Same! I use it for searching reddit all the time.

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