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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

by 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.

by jt2190 5y ago

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.