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Since this is turning into a DDG AMA thread of sorts -- I love DDG! However it's search term autocorrect is really broken when DDG decides for me I must not be
by spopejoy 10mo ago
Since this is turning into a DDG AMA thread of sorts --
I love DDG! However it's search term autocorrect is really broken when DDG decides for me I must not be looking for exactly what I typed.
It seems to assume that if there isn't a lot of results then it's my fault for typing a "bad" query? Sometimes it makes up a new search out of whole cloth in this case with terms not even close to what I typed.
I get the utility for detecting+correcting typos but DDG often takes this way too far. Posting this in friendly criticism, happy user otherwise!
- estimator7292 10mo agoAll modern search engines (except Kagi) seem to do this and I find it incredibly disrespectful and worse than useless. I avoid DDG and all search engines that do this. Forcing me to manually sort through garbage because you didn't want to render an empty page is a huge waste of my time. If you don't respect my time, I'm just not gonna interact with your service. Do better.
- netsharc 10mo agoLooking for the Nicolas Cage movie "Lord of War" on Google, around the time the game "God of War" came out: "Did you mean 'God of War'? Here are search results for this video game"...