Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by powersnail on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:50PM (#21429291)

I found that DDG is okay for two types of queries: common everyday topics and technical queries. For many other niche topic, it’s not good at all.

I use DDG as the default and have been doing so for many years. I still have to add !g every time I search for violin related questions. The results are often just not relevant at all.

I think DDG still has a long way to grow to be a 100% replacement for Google outside the tech and science community.

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by maest on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:42PM (#21429602)

Regarding technical queries, they consistently return links to the python 2 docs, never python 3.

What I assume people do is they click on the python 2 docs then change the version on the python website. So, from bings perspective it looks like people want the python 2 links. It always frustrates me and makes looking stuff up longer than needed.

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by gspetr on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:31PM (#21431151)

There is a very easy workflow remedy for this, if DDG is your default search engine: type "!py [topic]"

For example, I tried searching for "python lists" in my address bar (DDG is my default) and I got all sorts of garbage.

Next, I typed "!py lists" and the browser immediately opened this page for me: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=lists

So that works really nice if what you need is Python's native docs.

But there's more to "bang" syntax usage, now totaling over 13,000 bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang#bangs-list

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by maest on Sunday November 03, 2019 @01:24PM (#21435599)

Nice tip, I'll try that next time, thanks!

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by pmarreck on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:14PM (#21436273)

TIL about the DDG Bang feature. Wow.

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by m463 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:27PM (#21459151)

wow this may reduce my trips via ddg to stack overflow.

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by ConceptJunkie on Saturday November 02, 2019 @07:55PM (#21430974)

Yeah, this is what I always do as well. Python is going EOL in less than two months. I hope that helps.

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by m463 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:26PM (#21459143)

Maybe you need to run 2to3 on your search results? ;)

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by jakeogh on Saturday November 02, 2019 @04:32PM (#21429877)

qwant hands back py3 links: https://lite.qwant.com/?q=python+builtin+exceptions

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