To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by jazoom on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:20PM (#20445393)

I try to use and like DDG, but the results just aren't as good. For example, it seems to be completely unaware of Docker Hub. Like, pages from that entire subdomain never show up. I can search "Docker hub" and it doesn't even show up.

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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by ben509 on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:45PM (#20447101)

For that specifically, use !dhub or !dockerhub to search the site directly. Really, the magic of DDG is bang queries.

(Search for bang queries with, not surprisingly, "!bang".)

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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by jazoom on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:08PM (#20447190)

usually I just do !g and that solves the problem ;-)

But also, thank you. I didn't realise there were so many bangs.

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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by bamboozled on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:37PM (#20446291)

I agree, unfortunately the search is really really sub-par and like others said, frequently doesn’t find basic things no matter how specific the keywords I use are.

I feel it might have even been better at one stage ?

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