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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by yepguy on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:46AM (#18101003)
Searching Google is the real dark art these days, especially if you don't use personalized results. I am constantly frustrated by Google straight up ignoring my most important search terms.

At least with DuckDuckGo I know that it's searching for what I told it to, rather than searching for something easier to find, which seems similar to a machine, but completely different to me.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by dingaling on Sunday September 30, 2018 @01:22AM (#18104590)
What annoys me with DDG is that it treats a list of words as logical OR; the help page states that

Dog Cat

Will return results for Dog OR Cat

To force to AND one has to quote every word, thus:

"Dog" "Cat"

Which is tedious especially on mobile.

I don't know why they think people would want to default to OR.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by finaliteration on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:05PM (#18101462)
> I am constantly frustrated by Google straight up ignoring my most important search terms.

However, on Google you do get an identifier next to the result that shows whether your term is missing from the page or not which allows for weeding out "unrelated" results relatively quickly. It also has the "must include" link so that you can narrow your searches without having to retype the query.

Doing the same search on DDG just shows some results but it's not clear whether my specific terms are on the page or not.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by nielsbot on Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:09PM (#18102840)
Same here. I often have to switch to "verbatim" results. I hate their too clever "we guessed what you're really searching for! here you go!" results...
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