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Many development related queries seem to come back with undesired results in DDG where Google would come through but for most of my queries DDG is certainly doi
by jayfuerstenberg 13y ago
Many development related queries seem to come back with undesired results in DDG where Google would come through but for most of my queries DDG is certainly doing a good job.
And I love the spartan results page I get back. It's easy on the eyes.
- Elessar 13y agoThe reason for this (and the main reason I despise DDG after a month of using them) is that they only show one result per site, regardless of relevance. Stack Overflow being what it is, limiting sites of that kind of quality/focus to a single result is frustrating. Hopefully someone will tell me there's a way to fix that, but limiting sites to a single result is a poor design choice. And forcing me to think "maybe this site has more relevant related pages" and act on that thought doesn't work, because I prefer to scan the results DDG has already given me.
- jurassic 13y agoDo you know about bang searches to search specific sites? "so! <your query here>"
- jayfuerstenberg 13y agoEmbarrassed. I didn't know about this. Thanks everyone!
- eru 13y agoInteresting. I always used "!so <query>".
- bittercynic 13y agoFunny, Google returning too many results from the same domain was the primary thing that drove me to DDG.
- gee_totes 13y agoIf you're going development related queries, I strongly suggest taking advantage of the !bangs and searching the official documentation first. Being limited to only the jquery docs vs. googling until I found a random stack overflow question that I could copypasta helped me improve as a developer.