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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by megous on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:57AM (#18932361)
I wish I could tell ddg that I only care about postgresql.

It seems heavily skewed to oracle/ms server when searching anything sql related. Perhaps because it's powered by Bing?

Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by akuchling on Thursday January 17, 2019 @12:20PM (#18932576)
Add '!psql' to your search. A full list of these is at https://duckduckgo.com/bang .
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by baddox on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:19PM (#18934748)
Two problems with that: it only searches the official PostgreSQL documentation (not things like StackOverflow), and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't work at all (it doesn't correctly pass your query to the PostgreSQL site).
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by da_chicken on Thursday January 17, 2019 @02:05PM (#18933528)
I wish I could tell DDG that I don't give a shit about Python 2.7. Stop linking me to the Python 2 doc! I haven't used Python 2 in five years!
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by quicklime on Thursday January 17, 2019 @02:53PM (#18933979)
I wish I could tell both DDG and Google that I don't care about Java 7. Not sure why they both default to giving old Javadocs, but I suspect it's due to a lot of enterprise developers who are still stuck in old versions.
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by reaperducer on Thursday January 17, 2019 @03:53PM (#18934543)
Ditto for macOS versions more than three years old. How to change the screenshot directory in Panther isn't going to help me in Mojave. But even with quotation marks, Google ignores half of what I request.
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by gnicholas on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:01PM (#18934601)
> But even with quotation marks, Google ignores half of what I request.

Now you have to go to Tools and change All Results to Verbatim every single time you want it to stick with your actual search terms. It's a shame the quotation marks don't mean anything anymore.

Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by bitpush on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:23PM (#18935630)
You do realize what you're asking for is personalization, right?
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by da_chicken on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:37AM (#18939969)
Personalization would be asking the system to learn that I don't want Python 2.x. I want to be able to tell the search to exclude Python 2.x results. It's like the difference between me creating a bookmark and the browser generating a "favorite sites" list.
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by megous on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:26AM (#18939103)
It's the same for postgresql. Search 'postgresql select' and the first result is to a 9 year old postgresql version's docs.
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by dnlsrl on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:42PM (#18934923)
!python3
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by FabHK on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:25PM (#18935256)
Or even !py3, for us lazy types.
Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by ams6110 on Thursday January 17, 2019 @12:05PM (#18932435)
Or because the number of Oracle/MS SQL Server installations dwarf Postgres in the real world?