Is it time to stop trusting Google search?

Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by ordu on Saturday November 11, 2017 @09:09AM (#15676411)

It is interesting, because does not match to my experience. Can you give an example of your search query that does not work well enough on DDG?

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by amorphid on Saturday November 11, 2017 @09:47AM (#15676556)

My username => amorphid

I want 'amorphid', not 'amorphis'.

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by chappi42 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:39AM (#15676747)

+amorphid

works. More tips under "duckduckgo search syntax".

This said, I think google is more accurate. But duckduckgo works well enough and is my default search engine now (Google lost me with THE ONE GOOGLE aggregation since quite a while ago)

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by akurtzhs on Saturday November 11, 2017 @01:33PM (#15677456)

I'm still frustrated that Google took away using pluses in searches so they could try to recreate AOL keywords for Google Plus.

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by alsetmusic on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:36AM (#15676733)

I just searched with quotes around the word and it worked.

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by cjwoodall on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:41AM (#15676755)

Quotes work wonders. For many search engines including google knowing the syntax for more advanced searches is key.

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by chungy on Saturday November 11, 2017 @12:28PM (#15677167)

DuckDuckGo even informs you of their changed query under the assumption of a spelling mistake, and offers to search, in quotes, exactly what you typed instead. Right at the top of the page.

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by SerLava on Saturday November 11, 2017 @12:07PM (#15677082)

Ugh, the worst part is that it bolds the word you didn't look up.

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