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My biggest issue with DDG search results was always lack of 'context'. If i type some keywords related to recent political statement or an event, even if a bit
by atraac 4y ago
My biggest issue with DDG search results was always lack of 'context'. If i type some keywords related to recent political statement or an event, even if a bit generic one, I'd like to see information about that, the most recent one, from my country, not some years old results from USA.
Like typing 'Tusk HiT' in Google, should yield me a ton of articles about what Donald Tusk(a famous polish politican) has recently said on HiT('History and Present days' - new, propaganda school subject and highly controversial book of mostly fiction and opinions that was made bu our 'government').
If I type it in Google I get newest and relevant results. Is it at the cost of my privacy(they know my rough location)? Sure. Do 99% of users care? Not really.
If i type it in DDG, I get Songfacts about 'Tusk' by Fleetwood Mac... It's not even comparable. For every day use, it's simply a no go for most of the world, which is not really technical enough to even realize they can/should use bangs. DDG will never get higher market share unless they realize, people rarely actually know what they search for, they won't know if they wanna see a Wikipedia article or something else. They just want relevant results, and DDG doesn't really deliver that.
- tasuki 4y agoOften I want exactly the opposite of "relevant" results - I want results related to what I searched for, not to where I'm located nor to what's currently happening. Someone on HN complained they couldn't Google their acquaintance around the time of the Olympics, because one of the participants had a name which was different but similar, and Google just couldn't grok you'd want to look for someone else than an Olympian...
- thrashh 4y agoThe vast majority of my searches are either relevant events or non-contextual to begin with and I rather have the rare case where your example happens to be when I have to add extra search terms, instead than the other way around. I honestly see HN and Reddit complain about Google results a lot and I wonder if y’all the minority use case tbh.
- tasuki 4y agoI could have like two buttons for the two use cases, or a checkbox. For sure a minority, hence why Google doing what they're doing...