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Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google by shpx on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:13AM (#15293329)
Sometimes, it feels Google is increasingly useless at finding those niche websites because all the noise has time to do search engine """optimization""".

I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist... but it should come with pre-compiled lists, like uBlock Origin.

Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google by ianai on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:06AM (#15294525)
I’m glad I’m not the only one to think that. I wonder what a good way to measure that signal to noise ratio is?

This feels like an application of the 80/20 rule. I might not always find what I need in just that offline index, but the times I do would seriously disrupt google.

Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google by snaky on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:42AM (#15302736)
Great extension, thanks!

Oh, I wish there were a way to rate the results in a opposite way. Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I want even mark some site as 'a hidden gem'. Usually it's something rather niche though, like a bunch of great little articles about anti-aliasing filters design and sampling, full of engineering wisdom from the decades of experience. So I think it would be perfect to have a way to tag it by some topic.