Re:Please Make Google AMP Optional
by nerdponx on Saturday June 10, 2017 @07:38PM
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I actually find DDG results to be better and more relevant a lot of the time nowadays. The only thing Google really has an edge on (for my use) is searching for academic articles, because of Google Scholar.
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DDG used to be worse but now it's about even. Every time I get bad results on DDG and use !g I find equally bad results.
Can't agree. Almost always when DDG has only spam or useless results, !g gives me exactly what I looked for. I like DDG, especially the bangs, but Google still gives me way better results when I need them.
Out of curiosity, what are some examples? You can also submit feedback directly in the results, which the DDG team uses to improve their algorithms.
Just had an extremely horrendous example. Searching for "webpack 3" the first link doesn't mention "webpack" at all, only packweb and generally it's an absolutely useless result page.
Can you screenshot your results please, because mine are all webpack related.
https://imgur.com/a/oMWBC
But yeah, saw that I had south africa enabled. Still makes little sense but explains a bit why the result is so weird.
IIRC most commonly it's coding related stuff.
Re:Please Make Google AMP Optional
by quantum_magpie on Saturday June 10, 2017 @10:51PM
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Same experience. I switched 4 years ago, and the search results that I'm interested in were as good or better than google.
Except scientific articles. I've yet to find a service that comes anywhere close to Google Scholar, which I think is the most successful of their products for my use case.