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When I search for something on DDG, I generally find one or two good results somewhere in the first set and all the rest are spammy/junk sites that repost conte
by chaud 14y ago
When I search for something on DDG, I generally find one or two good results somewhere in the first set and all the rest are spammy/junk sites that repost content from other larger sites or just poor quality results.
DDG also doesn't understand context or acronyms, like MoP. I work for a gaming site, so my example is gaming related.
Google knows when I search for "mop legendary" I am looking for information relating to a legendary item in the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft. DDG doesn't make that connection of MoP -> Mists of Pandaria. I do get some amusing results like this though: http://www.buy.com/th/swiss-legend-diamond-mop.html http://www.buy.com/th/swiss-legend-diamond-mop.html
- greglindahl 14y agoTough one. blekko has a WoW slashtag, but it doesn't auto-boost for that query. You can invoke it by hand, though, how do you like this result? https://blekko.com/ws/mop+legendary+%2B/wow https://blekko.com/ws/mop+legendary+%2B/wow
- chaud 14y agoLess of the low quality sites, but I would expect one of these URLs to be on the first page: 1) http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2806-Mists-of-Pandaria-Beta-Build-15762 http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2806-Mists-of-Pandaria-B... 2) http://www.wowhead.com/news=204099/mists-of-pandarias-first-legendary-available-for-every-class http://www.wowhead.com/news=204099/mists-of-pandarias-first-... 3) http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/mists-of-pandaria-new-wrathion-voice-files-datamined/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/mists-of-pandaria-new-wrat... It does better (at least as far as the first result or two go) when you don't have to guess the acronym though: 1) https://blekko.com/ws/tier+14+sets+%2B%2Fwow https://blekko.com/ws/tier+14+sets+%2B%2Fwow 2) https://blekko.com/ws/challenge+mode+sets+%2B%2Fwow https://blekko.com/ws/challenge+mode+sets+%2B%2Fwow For more standard searches it is okay, but DDG/Bing and Google are better. In these results I especially like potstuck and fabien potencier posts. 1) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+dependency+injection+container+example+ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+dependency+injection+container... 2) https://blekko.com/ws/php+dependency+injection+container+example https://blekko.com/ws/php+dependency+injection+container+exa... 3) https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=php+dependency+injection+container+example&fp=e58c1f154d1f56aa https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-a... It is nice to see alternatives developing though, should the day ever come that I want to leave Google behind!