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my problem is some operators just dont work any more, either on purpose or because of crappy quality control. for example, you used to be able to do: allin

by 38 3y ago

my problem is some operators just dont work any more, either on purpose or because of crappy quality control. for example, you used to be able to do: allintitle:Neil Diamond If You Go Away on YouTube, and get exactly what you would think, results with all those words in the title. but now, you dont: https://youtube.com/results?search_query=allintitle:Neil+Diamond+If+You+Go+Away https://youtube.com/results?search_query=allintitle:Neil+Dia... now, I get crap like this: Neil Diamond & Shirley Bassey - Play Me - "high quality" Barbra Streisand - If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas) how is that what I searched for? also, what is this: > A search for [site:nytimes.com] will work, but [site:nytimes.com] won't. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 did I just have a stroke? those two searches are exactly the same. I try to be understanding, but I am constantly tripping over big companies glaring software and/or documentation issues, it gets old.

Daub 3y ago
Agree. This even applies to simple Booleans, which are sometimes completely ignored.
- asteroidz 3y ago
  I sometimes wonder about PMs who sign off on decisions like these, and the seeming lack of protest the developers put up.
bdn_ 3y ago
Has anyone else experienced DuckDuckGo ignoring the exclusion operator? For example, searching `kiwi -fruit`, with no space between the hyphen and second word, used to bring up results that did not include the word "fruit". This no longer seems to be the case.
- lloydatkinson 3y ago
  Someone needs to build a meta search engine…
  - ghaff 3y ago
    At least one existed in the dot com era. Forget the name.
    - fuzztester 3y ago
      metacrawler, IIRC.
  - dev_hugepages 3y ago
    searx/searxng?
- mdp2021 3y ago
  > duckduckgo ... exclusion operator Removed a few weeks ago. Somebody posted in these pages the github diff showing the removal of the options.
chkal 3y ago
> did I just have a stroke? those two searches are exactly the same. I just had the exact same though while reading the page.
- nomilk 3y ago
  The fact Google's own documentation is this poorly kept is a astonishing. Makes me a firm believer companies should have their documentation on GitHub (or similar) so anyone can make a PR to tidy these things up.
hddqsb 3y ago
> https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 > those two searches are exactly the same Yes, that appears to be a recently-introduced typo -- the archived version from April does have a space: https://web.archive.org/web/20230412181331/https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://web.archive.org/web/20230412181331/https://support.g... I submitted a feedback comment, hopefully they'll fix the typo. (For future reference, here is a snapshot of the current version without a space: https://web.archive.org/web/20230722085337/https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://web.archive.org/web/20230722085337/https://support.g...)
pdanpdan 3y ago
The one not working has a space after the colon. It's even in the section taking about this :)
- 38 3y ago
  no, it doesn't.
  - pdanpdan 3y ago
    It looks like it's damaged in the English translation/version. In a few other languages I checked it has :)

by 38 3y ago

Daub 3y ago

Agree. This even applies to simple Booleans, which are sometimes completely ignored.

asteroidz 3y ago
I sometimes wonder about PMs who sign off on decisions like these, and the seeming lack of protest the developers put up.

bdn_ 3y ago

Has anyone else experienced DuckDuckGo ignoring the exclusion operator? For example, searching `kiwi -fruit`, with no space between the hyphen and second word, used to bring up results that did not include the word "fruit". This no longer seems to be the case.

lloydatkinson 3y ago
Someone needs to build a meta search engine…
- ghaff 3y ago
  At least one existed in the dot com era. Forget the name.
  - fuzztester 3y ago
    metacrawler, IIRC.
- dev_hugepages 3y ago
  searx/searxng?
mdp2021 3y ago
> duckduckgo ... exclusion operator Removed a few weeks ago. Somebody posted in these pages the github diff showing the removal of the options.

chkal 3y ago

> did I just have a stroke? those two searches are exactly the same. I just had the exact same though while reading the page.

nomilk 3y ago
The fact Google's own documentation is this poorly kept is a astonishing. Makes me a firm believer companies should have their documentation on GitHub (or similar) so anyone can make a PR to tidy these things up.

hddqsb 3y ago

> https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 > those two searches are exactly the same Yes, that appears to be a recently-introduced typo -- the archived version from April does have a space: https://web.archive.org/web/20230412181331/https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://web.archive.org/web/20230412181331/https://support.g... I submitted a feedback comment, hopefully they'll fix the typo. (For future reference, here is a snapshot of the current version without a space: https://web.archive.org/web/20230722085337/https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://web.archive.org/web/20230722085337/https://support.g...)

pdanpdan 3y ago

The one not working has a space after the colon. It's even in the section taking about this :)

38 3y ago
no, it doesn't.
- pdanpdan 3y ago
  It looks like it's damaged in the English translation/version. In a few other languages I checked it has :)