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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by BjoernKW on Saturday January 25, 2020 @06:39AM (#22145875)
This is what I keep hearing about DuckDuckGo and I'd really like this to be true for myself and my search engine usage.

Unfortunately, however, having used DuckDuckGo for the last few weeks my experience has been quite the opposite (described here in some more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106837 ), especially when it comes to programming-related queries.

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by clarry on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:35AM (#22146390)
It would be nice to conduct these experiments while actually saving the searches (and results) for further study & ideas from the community on how to improve them.

I hear a lot of anecdotes about search working/not working but concrete examples remain elusive.

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by BjoernKW on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:22PM (#22147685)
Intriguing idea. It'd be interesting to get DuckDuckGo involved in such a project because it's in their interest to improve search query matches.

Maybe, a browser plugin that allows you to easily report less than optimal or even irrelevant search results to DuckDuckGo (including a comparison with other search engine in case those yield more appropriate results) would be quite useful.

This obviously has privacy implications, though.

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