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Not crazy, I always resort to yandex when I know google is not showing me the results I am looking for DDG doesn’t click for me sadly, and I cannot point my fi

by seviu 5mo ago

Not crazy, I always resort to yandex when I know google is not showing me the results I am looking for DDG doesn’t click for me sadly, and I cannot point my finger to where or why

muppetman 5mo ago
A bet the stupid name doesn’t help. I know what you mean though, I use it but it’s never quite right. Hard to say exactly why.
- pooploop64 5mo ago
  My sister thought it was malware when she was seeing ads for it. Something about the whole overall branding is just bad.
  - yegg 5mo ago
    Sorry you feel that way, pooploop64. We are doing a complete brand refresh this year though.
    - jakeydus 5mo ago
      Dang, did I just see someone get rimjobsteve-d in the wild?
    - kryogen1c 5mo ago
      This has me absolutely howling. I use Bing at work for no other reason than sheer laziness, really. You've inspired me to return to DDG. Keep on keepin on, yegg.
      - yegg 5mo ago
        Thank you!
        kryogen1c 5mo ago
        Upon further review, I was not in fact lazy. I've been DDG the whole time. Makes sense!
- futune 5mo ago
  Having a stupid name is tables stakes in the search space.
kevin_thibedeau 5mo ago
DDG is repackaged Bing. Used to be Yandex too but sanctions put an end to that.
- yegg 5mo ago
  We are significantly more than that at this point, including that we've been working on our own web index for the past two years (see https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckduckgo-is-building https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckd...). But on top of that we don't get local results, knowledge graph, answers, sports, anything AI related, and many more essential modules from Bing, all of which collectively makes up a large % of the results at this point, let alone the vastly different UXs.
  - stavros 5mo ago
    I use DDG as my daily driver and quite like it. Then again, I don't really see much difference between DDG and Kagi, so I may be some sort of pleb. I will say that, sometimes, DDG gets "stuck" on certain sorts of close-phrase matches, rather than showing me the thing I'm looking for, but I've learned to recognize that behavior and append !g to it.
  - Cider9986 5mo ago
    I find DuckDuckGo's search results to be terrible. I use Brave search and I find it to be the best. I've also tried Startpage and I like it better than DDG, but less than Brave. DDG often has scam sites for example when you search for FMHY, https://fmhy.net https://fmhy.net comes up on all other search engines, but fmhy [.] click comes up on DDG. Same with "anna's archive" returning the fake site annas-archive [.]io.
    - gtfiorentino 5mo ago
      We’ll take a look at those two sites, thanks for reporting. We’re actively working to improve how we detect and remove scam sites, and getting specific reports is very helpful.
yegg 5mo ago
Well, I'd love to know; as I've said in some other comments, we've changed and improved a lot in the last couple years and so feel free to send me feedback.
- ldng 5mo ago
  Have you ? I've been a ddg user full time for 15+ years and I did see it improve quite lot over time. But quality dropped when Yandex was cut off. Lately, I've noticed YET AGAIN being trapped in a bubble with results being to clever for their own good ... I did leave Google PRECISELY for the bubble effect ... Not even mentioned the AI shenanigans with ridiculous results at times. DDG is not immune to enshitification. Way too many managers thinks they know better than the user ... they don't.

by seviu 5mo ago

Not crazy, I always resort to yandex when I know google is not showing me the results I am looking for DDG doesn’t click for me sadly, and I cannot point my finger to where or why

muppetman 5mo ago

A bet the stupid name doesn’t help. I know what you mean though, I use it but it’s never quite right. Hard to say exactly why.

pooploop64 5mo ago
My sister thought it was malware when she was seeing ads for it. Something about the whole overall branding is just bad.
- yegg 5mo ago
  Sorry you feel that way, pooploop64. We are doing a complete brand refresh this year though.
  - jakeydus 5mo ago
    Dang, did I just see someone get rimjobsteve-d in the wild?
  - kryogen1c 5mo ago
    This has me absolutely howling. I use Bing at work for no other reason than sheer laziness, really. You've inspired me to return to DDG. Keep on keepin on, yegg.
    - yegg 5mo ago
      Thank you!
      - kryogen1c 5mo ago
        Upon further review, I was not in fact lazy. I've been DDG the whole time. Makes sense!
futune 5mo ago
Having a stupid name is tables stakes in the search space.

kevin_thibedeau 5mo ago

DDG is repackaged Bing. Used to be Yandex too but sanctions put an end to that.

yegg 5mo ago
We are significantly more than that at this point, including that we've been working on our own web index for the past two years (see https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckduckgo-is-building https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckd...). But on top of that we don't get local results, knowledge graph, answers, sports, anything AI related, and many more essential modules from Bing, all of which collectively makes up a large % of the results at this point, let alone the vastly different UXs.
- stavros 5mo ago
  I use DDG as my daily driver and quite like it. Then again, I don't really see much difference between DDG and Kagi, so I may be some sort of pleb. I will say that, sometimes, DDG gets "stuck" on certain sorts of close-phrase matches, rather than showing me the thing I'm looking for, but I've learned to recognize that behavior and append !g to it.
- Cider9986 5mo ago
  I find DuckDuckGo's search results to be terrible. I use Brave search and I find it to be the best. I've also tried Startpage and I like it better than DDG, but less than Brave. DDG often has scam sites for example when you search for FMHY, https://fmhy.net https://fmhy.net comes up on all other search engines, but fmhy [.] click comes up on DDG. Same with "anna's archive" returning the fake site annas-archive [.]io.
  - gtfiorentino 5mo ago
    We’ll take a look at those two sites, thanks for reporting. We’re actively working to improve how we detect and remove scam sites, and getting specific reports is very helpful.

yegg 5mo ago

Well, I'd love to know; as I've said in some other comments, we've changed and improved a lot in the last couple years and so feel free to send me feedback.

ldng 5mo ago
Have you ? I've been a ddg user full time for 15+ years and I did see it improve quite lot over time. But quality dropped when Yandex was cut off. Lately, I've noticed YET AGAIN being trapped in a bubble with results being to clever for their own good ... I did leave Google PRECISELY for the bubble effect ... Not even mentioned the AI shenanigans with ridiculous results at times. DDG is not immune to enshitification. Way too many managers thinks they know better than the user ... they don't.