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Yup. Those work as intended with DDG: hacker news -site:ycombinator.com office -microsoft picard -"star trek" japanese fish and rice -sushi
by hericium 4y ago
Yup. Those work as intended with DDG:
hacker news -site:ycombinator.com
office -microsoft
picard -"star trek"
japanese fish and rice -sushi
- autoexec 4y agoheh, not only was: 'office -microsoft' filled with microsoft links but when i tried 'office -microsoft -site:microsoft.com' all I got was a blank page! I'll give them some credit though, using duckduckgo.com I only got a page full of Microsoft that shouldn't have been there. It looks like it's https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ that has the blank page problem
- duckmysick 4y agoAre you talking about duckduckgo? I tried `office -microsoft` just now and got the expected results: tv series, tv series podcast, government sites, bunch of businesses named Office. Nothing about Microsoft Office.
- Thorrez 4y agoHuh, it's showing Microsoft stuff for me: https://i.imgur.com/jrNw5LX.png https://i.imgur.com/jrNw5LX.png https://duckduckgo.com/?q=office+-microsoft&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=office+-microsoft&t=h_&ia=web
- duckmysick 4y agoInteresting. I clicked your second link and I still got the results respecting the negative operator I mentioned in my post above. Edit: To confirm, `office` alone returns a page full of Microsoft results. If anyone from DuckDuckGo is lurking by any chance, I'd love to hear what makes it different.
- anonymoushn 4y agoI have these same results. Maybe there's an active A/B test where one bucket has a working search engine.
- autoexec 4y agoYeah. For a site that claims to help people escape the filter bubble this seems like evidence that they don't. Maybe it's your location, or your typical searches that are giving you better results, but duckduckgo fails that test for me every time.