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Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo search changed something?
For years I've been using DDG and very rarely had to turn to Google for a better search result. Lately I'm having to !g to Google on many searches. And using "search_string" for exact matches seems to fail completely...
- not_your_vase 3y agoI suspect this bug could be still related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254 There is a comment from the CEO with some clarifications (user yegg)
- bilegeek 3y agoFor the quotes bit: I found a source[1] saying to append a + to the beginning of the quotes for verbatim mode. Example: +"stanford waits" Aside from that, I can't offer any answers; only commiseration. [1]https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduckgo_has_no_verbatim_mode/e9cx3ww/ https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduck...
- frfsfgxffd 3y agoyeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-) it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.