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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by dTal on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:11AM (#18977066)
I find it rather odd that Googling "uBlock Origin" from Firefox does not return links to addons.mozilla.org - at all. The top result is of course the Chrome addon. The third result is the website for "uBlock" which is the unmaintained fork. Three pages in and you're getting dubious-looking repackaging sites, but no official addon.

How on Earth does "Comorbidities Associated with Plaque Psoriasis | Dermatology Times" on page 10 have a higher PageRank and relevance for the search query "uBlock Origin" than https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... ?

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by mikro2nd on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:50AM (#18977219)
That's sort of weird. Searching DDG for "ublock origin" gives me:

1. Chrome web store

2. ublock.org

3. Microsoft store

4. Wikipedia

5. Mozilla addon, and finally

6. Gorhill's github for ublock origin.

Can we finally say that DDG is better for some searches than Google?

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by renholder on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:45AM (#18977451)
>Can we finally say that DDG is better for some searches than Google?

I think we're close. For some things, it's still not the best but instead of going to <insert another search engine here>, I try to modify my query to scope to what I'm looking for.

In a crude example, if I'm looking for the "LoadCrashDump" method,, which is specific to ClrMD[0], I can simply construct my query as "ClrMD: LoadCrashDump".

[0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/clrmd/blob/ac36603e37ef7c8ba05d...

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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by erk__ on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:24AM (#18978304)
Bing pretty much returns the same as the above
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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by mikro2nd on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:25AM (#18978893)
Not too surprising, since Bing is one of the engines DDG uses under the hood.
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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by evozer on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:55AM (#18977238)
I had to go to the last page and click "repeat the search with the omitted results included" to make it show up at all. After doing that it was the third result.
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