Like it or not, NL queries are exactly what most internet users want. Without them, any search engine is doomed to remain a niche product used exclusively by the very privacy-conscious.
Any sources? What I see is the majority use the search bar to input the name of a website or a brand.
Indeed. I'm happy to forego Google and then (in cases like this) click once more to figure it out myself.
Also because AI (if I may even call it that) is not yet good enough to answer these things with high accuracy, let alone judge sources. I don't use Google much so I can't really speak for it, but from what I've seen, I'd estimate that 20% of the answers (for non-mainstream topics) are either misleading or false.
I type "name of the movie !imdb", which takes me straight to IMDB's search results for that name.
!bangs are the main reason why it's always going to be difficult for me to switch from DDG to anything else.
Re:The world needs more search engines
by heisenhuegel on Monday December 02, 2019 @06:42PM
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https://beta.cliqz.com has some support for bangs. Not as many as DDG but adding !g (google), !s (startpage), !d (duckduckgo), !so (stackoverflow), !w (wikipedia), etc works for me. Needs to be at the end, not at the start.
If you want DDG to understand natural language queries, I think their privacy policy may need to be adjusted so that our queries can actually be used to develop that, and then they need a boatload of funding to catch up with Google's semi-ethical money-generating practices.