Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
by dstaley on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:39PM
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So this is incredibly bizarre. I went back into my history and clicked on the exact entry corresponding to this search query, and the results are now all programming related. The previous first result ("11 Prison Truths, Revealed By A Female Guard") is now on the second page of results.
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Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
by NeedMoreTea on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:09PM
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Or maybe landed on a different shard if they organise that way.
All searches vary, but generalising DDG does disappear off into the silly and completely unrelated as you hit lower pages, rather than fading into "looks relevant but isn't" of Google. Pages 1 & 2 I find mostly on the money.
What has changed is when I !g out to Google I often don't find the results there either, so it's time to get creative with keywords, or try millionshort for blog hunting. A few years ago a !g felt like a much more reliable escape option. Which feels like a mix of DDG getting better so I'm probably escaping harder queries, and Google simply missing the mark more often.