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The contrast was/is starker: DDG would return pages of irrelevant crap, and Google/StartPage would have exactly what I wanted in the first 1-3 results, with usu
by oinksoft 13y ago
The contrast was/is starker: DDG would return pages of irrelevant crap, and Google/StartPage would have exactly what I wanted in the first 1-3 results, with usually 8 of the top ten being relevant. Google is simply leagues ahead of the competition right now in both index quality and query recognition.
- pessimizer 13y agoI hear this a lot, but no one ever gives me a search example that bears it out. I !g sometimes after I'm just not seeing what I want on DDG, and as often as not, the Google results are even worse.
- oinksoft 13y agoSure. Just now, I wanted to make sure I was right about elements that fire the DOM "change" event for a guy in ##javascript by looking at Mozilla documentation. Unfortunately, I had DDG active in my search bar in Firefox. "mdn change" in DDG turns up nothing remotely useful, whereas the first result in StartPage (Google) is what I want, and the subsequent results are all of some interest. Google seems to understand the proximity of the name of a common DOM reference and the name of a DOM event (probably via some graph) and Bing/DDG is clueless.