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If DuckDuckGo really wants to beat Google, they could start by fixing the way the minus sign works in their searches. For example, if I type "cats -dogs" I don'
by innocentoldguy 4y ago
If DuckDuckGo really wants to beat Google, they could start by fixing the way the minus sign works in their searches. For example, if I type "cats -dogs" I don't want the first five result I get back to be all about dogs. This is the single biggest reason I ditched DuckDuckGo for Brave Search.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> if I type "cats -dogs" OK, I'll bite. I tried the search: all articles on the first page are about cats, not dogs; most have the word "cat" at the beginning of the title.
- innocentoldguy 4y agoI'm not literally talking about cats and dogs. Cats and dogs is DuckDuckGo's syntax example. DuckDuckGo's minus sign functionality is a well-known issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/w5dzol/minus_sign_doesnt_exclude_words_from_results_see/ https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/w5dzol/minus_si...
- denton-scratch 4y agoOKIC.