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Agreed. I think of these as two different types of searches - “page searches” where you know a page exists and want to get to it, and “content searches” where y
by npilk 2y ago
Agreed. I think of these as two different types of searches - “page searches” where you know a page exists and want to get to it, and “content searches” where you have a more open-ended question.
Really, for many “page searches”, a good search engine should just be able to take you immediately to the page. When I search “Tom Hanks IMDB”, there’s no need to see a list of links - there’s obviously one specific page I want to visit.
https://notes.npilk.com/custom-search https://notes.npilk.com/custom-search
- Y_Y 2y ago> Really, for many “page searches”, a good search engine should just be able to take you immediately to the page. Are you feeling lucky?
- npilk 2y agoExactly :-) Unfortunately you can’t really show ads if you take someone directly to the destination without any interstitial content like a list of links…
- sodality2 2y agoThis is one of my favorite duckduckgo features - adding a single exclamation point after a search (“Tom Hanks IMDB !”) does exactly this