ye thats it, it's just that the phrasing of the original example was a bit different. are you guys able to go through search logs to see different permutations of how visitors search for such terms?

ie. "python how to split", "split string python", "str split python" should all = "split python"

Did you see the wikibooks result? That was excellent, I didn't even know about it. Would it be possible to highlight that in the same way stackexchange is?

Those mailing list archive results are a real pain, they only have the answer <1% of the time and are hard to read.

DDG is awesome - it has been my default browser for a little while now. Can I just add one suggestion - put the 'make default browser search' somewhere on your homepage after detecting the user browser? I remember it took me 10+ clicks and links to work out how to make DDG default in Chrome.

Awesome, yeah, that's what we're trying to do now (wrt to the permutations), but we don't have a lot of data so it's a bit difficult.

Noted on the other results and thx for analyzing it so deeply. That realy helps.

There is an 'Add to Chrome' on the homepage, but it goes away after you click on it. Unfortunately, Chrome doesn't make it easy to switch providers. I wrote this up here (about 5 major browsers): http://ye.gg/addto

interesting post! that explain it - thanks