Society Needs an Alternative Web

Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by reitanqild on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:21AM (#19450622)

> It (barely, but) understands. It can find sentences that use different structure but meaning is similar.

Can't say I see meaningful difference between DDG and Google on this anymore.

DDG keeps getting better and Google has been on a downward spiral for some time.

> It can find result using synonyms instead of the original words.

DDG does this as well. And unlike Google they aren't driving me crazy by ignoring my double quotes and verbatim searches.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by TomMarius on Friday March 22, 2019 @03:50AM (#19460354)

I have to agree with the other commenter, Google understands semantics, DDG just replaces words, working even worse than without it in some cases. I seriously hope they will improve it soon (and I donated some money to them), I'd love to switch.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Society Needs an Alternative Web by agumonkey on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:48PM (#19458130)

i'm sorry but ddg fails very rapidly on anything that requires semantics

[ Parent | on HN ]