What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by chx on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:04PM (#22140127)

So I need a 1m long C7-C8 extension cord. Not a 30cm, not a 50cm, not a 1.8m, I need 1m long. Let's search:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=c7+c8+extension+cord+%221m%22&t=h_...

let's force the titles:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=intitle%3Ac7+intitle%3Ac8+extensio...

That's completely broken, the titles contain none of the three things asked for.

yeah, I am not hopeful with duckduckgo either. I mean, Google is just as bad but I am pretty dismayed by the results these days.

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by bitL on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:22PM (#22140334)

DDG's quality actually decreased in the past year as now they seem to ignore explicitly required stuff in a query quite often. It used to be you just used quotes and got what you wanted, but these days that might get ignored. "-" for excluding similar popular words also seems to have stopped working.

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by y-c-o-m-b on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#22140714)

I thought it was just me remembering incorrectly if DDG supported quotes and includes. Could have sworn this worked before. Thanks for confirming you're also having this problem.

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by rikkus on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:39PM (#22140520)

First result for me on DDG is that very thing on Amazon.co.uk

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by LegitShady on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:23PM (#22140348)

if you put a space between 1 and m your results get better.

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