Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
by isostatic on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:29AM
(#18932088)
> Two things I also miss are "site:url" filters (dont know if ddg provides this)
How can you miss it when you haven't tried it?
Yes, ddg supports it [0]
It also supports limited date ranges, like last week, last month etc [1]
[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+duckdu... [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+json+site%3Astackoverflow.com&...
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
by zubspace on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:55AM
(#18932343)
Well stupid me. Thanks.
site: doesn't work in my browser url bar at the start so I got used to prepend !g... I know, a terrible workaround..
Could not find a way to search within specific years which is very useful for overloaded terms. It says, they are working on it..
For very technical queries I somehow already know that google gives me better results at the top. DDG results feel more like a dice roll.
Two things I also miss are "site:url" filters (dont know if ddg provides this) and date ranges, for example results within the last 3 years.
Well, maybe it's possible but I have other things to do than to browse around ddg or learn a bunch of bangs. In my opinion this is the main barrier to entry. Provide me all the possibilities on a single screen or behind a menu and don't expect user to dig around the docs. There's a lot of potential which will never be uncovered by alot of users, so they stick to google.