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We have actually been continually working on improving our search results. We're working on a new page to detail major updates on a quarterly basis, which shoul

by yegg 4y ago

We have actually been continually working on improving our search results. We're working on a new page to detail major updates on a quarterly basis, which should be live in a few weeks. At the same time, we've been continuously developing our Web Tracking Protections for our browsers and extensions. We also made a page for that here that is already out: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/web-tracking-protections/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we...

notlukesky 4y ago
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- yegg 4y ago
  No. There have been many inaccurate stories going around about us. Here's a recent fact check: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/02/fact-check-false-claim-duckduckgo-purging-independent-media/10810765002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/02/fac.... And here is the page we put out ourselves on our news rankings: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/news-rankings/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne.... From that page: "A search engine’s primary job is to rank results. In other words, search engines try to put results that most quickly and accurately answer the query on top. At DuckDuckGo we produce search results from a variety of sources, and when we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."
  - puffoflogic 4y ago
    Silence is violence. By refusing to up-rank reliable sources you have declared your allegiance to Neonazis and other undesirables.
    - rdtwo 4y ago
      Wtf is a reliable source? It’s not 1990 anymore
  - rolph 4y ago
    ads are never relevant to my search query, but they always show up top, google style, when i use DDG
pessimizer 4y ago
I can't seem to remove terms from search results any more, and I've tried every syntax I could think of. The reason I tried every syntax I could think of is because I couldn't figure out anywhere on DDG where search syntax is explained (other than !bangs.) I could have sworn there was an easily accessible page in the past that explained that.
- naavis 4y ago
  You open the DuckDuckGo website, select "Help" from the sidebar and write "syntax" into the search box: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...
  - dingaling 4y ago
    The main problem I have with the syntax is that "-" doesn't remove that term from the search results. In fact I'm not sure what it does. For example, search "cats" and "cats -adopt". The second result for me in both cases is "Cats for adoption".
    - naavis 4y ago
      That is true, no arguments against that. I merely wanted to point out that it is relatively easy to find the mentioned help page.
- pdimitar 4y ago
  I strongly second this. Bring back manual control of search results and allow me to exclude words!
pdimitar 4y ago
Wishlist: 1. Make quoted words and phrases work as intended, please. When I say: elixir "ecto.schema" tutorial, that's exactly what I mean and I want search results to reflect that. 2. Respect the minus sign. Almost every time I use it it's completely ignored.

by yegg 4y ago

notlukesky 4y ago

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yegg 4y ago
No. There have been many inaccurate stories going around about us. Here's a recent fact check: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/02/fact-check-false-claim-duckduckgo-purging-independent-media/10810765002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/02/fac.... And here is the page we put out ourselves on our news rankings: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/news-rankings/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne.... From that page: "A search engine’s primary job is to rank results. In other words, search engines try to put results that most quickly and accurately answer the query on top. At DuckDuckGo we produce search results from a variety of sources, and when we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."
- puffoflogic 4y ago
  Silence is violence. By refusing to up-rank reliable sources you have declared your allegiance to Neonazis and other undesirables.
  - rdtwo 4y ago
    Wtf is a reliable source? It’s not 1990 anymore
- rolph 4y ago
  ads are never relevant to my search query, but they always show up top, google style, when i use DDG

pessimizer 4y ago

I can't seem to remove terms from search results any more, and I've tried every syntax I could think of. The reason I tried every syntax I could think of is because I couldn't figure out anywhere on DDG where search syntax is explained (other than !bangs.) I could have sworn there was an easily accessible page in the past that explained that.

naavis 4y ago
You open the DuckDuckGo website, select "Help" from the sidebar and write "syntax" into the search box: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...
- dingaling 4y ago
  The main problem I have with the syntax is that "-" doesn't remove that term from the search results. In fact I'm not sure what it does. For example, search "cats" and "cats -adopt". The second result for me in both cases is "Cats for adoption".
  - naavis 4y ago
    That is true, no arguments against that. I merely wanted to point out that it is relatively easy to find the mentioned help page.
pdimitar 4y ago
I strongly second this. Bring back manual control of search results and allow me to exclude words!

pdimitar 4y ago

Wishlist: 1. Make quoted words and phrases work as intended, please. When I say: elixir "ecto.schema" tutorial, that's exactly what I mean and I want search results to reflect that. 2. Respect the minus sign. Almost every time I use it it's completely ignored.