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In my experience, DDG brings up relevant results, maybe a bit more so than Google does. But often I'm searching for a phrase inside quotation marks and DDG has

In my experience, DDG brings up relevant results, maybe a bit more so than Google does. But often I'm searching for a phrase inside quotation marks and DDG hasn't crawled enough sites and gives me 0 or 1 result while Google gives me 5-10 results. Sometimes Google completely disregards the quotation marks, though.

Barbing 4mo ago
> But often I'm searching for a phrase inside quotation marks and DDG hasn't crawled enough sites Microsoft Bing bungles quotation marks so hard (???). DDG catches the fallout. > Sometimes Google completely disregards the quotation marks, though Years ago I remember Google asking the person lodging a similar complaint for an example of a query because they found there was always an explanation. Noticed this no longer holds as of perhaps a few months ago if I’m not mistaken. Even this* fails: +”omg just tell me no results if this exact string isn’t present come on I even put the plus sign” Infantilizing for us, maybe optimizing for the 99.5% in reality (understandable, annoying) *edit, made up example based on what I believe I’ve seen this year edit: > DDG brings up relevant results Have you noticed, not if you misspell a proper noun? Spellchecking e.g. brand names, new/fad current event topics is apparently really hard (IIRC Bing not perfect here either?)
- iamalizard 4mo ago
  > Microsoft Bing bungles quotation marks so hard (???). DDG was never good at quotation marks so I forgot to mention it also sucks at these. > Have you noticed, not if you misspell a proper noun? I haven't but I'd really prefer 2 options: 1) I may mispel thinks quote freqwently but gimme any sorta relevent result 2) I know what I am searching for. Maybe add a "Did you mean X?" link but still show me the results containing the misspellings. If I search for "motorolla" or "mottorolla" (misspellings for "Motorola") in quotes, DDG gives me 1 incomplete page for that misspelling. Google (StartPage) gives me mostly misspellings but with "Motorola" included in some results. Without the quotes both engines treat me as a moron who can't type. If I search for "mottorolla" phone 2026 DDG still shows me "mottorolla", not "motorola" while Google has decided I am indeed someone who can barely type even though I've put in quotes.

Barbing 4mo ago

> But often I'm searching for a phrase inside quotation marks and DDG hasn't crawled enough sites Microsoft Bing bungles quotation marks so hard (???). DDG catches the fallout. > Sometimes Google completely disregards the quotation marks, though Years ago I remember Google asking the person lodging a similar complaint for an example of a query because they found there was always an explanation. Noticed this no longer holds as of perhaps a few months ago if I’m not mistaken. Even this* fails: +”omg just tell me no results if this exact string isn’t present come on I even put the plus sign” Infantilizing for us, maybe optimizing for the 99.5% in reality (understandable, annoying) *edit, made up example based on what I believe I’ve seen this year edit: > DDG brings up relevant results Have you noticed, not if you misspell a proper noun? Spellchecking e.g. brand names, new/fad current event topics is apparently really hard (IIRC Bing not perfect here either?)

iamalizard 4mo ago
> Microsoft Bing bungles quotation marks so hard (???). DDG was never good at quotation marks so I forgot to mention it also sucks at these. > Have you noticed, not if you misspell a proper noun? I haven't but I'd really prefer 2 options: 1) I may mispel thinks quote freqwently but gimme any sorta relevent result 2) I know what I am searching for. Maybe add a "Did you mean X?" link but still show me the results containing the misspellings. If I search for "motorolla" or "mottorolla" (misspellings for "Motorola") in quotes, DDG gives me 1 incomplete page for that misspelling. Google (StartPage) gives me mostly misspellings but with "Motorola" included in some results. Without the quotes both engines treat me as a moron who can't type. If I search for "mottorolla" phone 2026 DDG still shows me "mottorolla", not "motorola" while Google has decided I am indeed someone who can barely type even though I've put in quotes.