Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo
by Semaphor on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:05AM
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> Bing/DDG has trouble with long tale search query relevance
The last time I did a comparison, Bing did better (I don’t know what DDG does with the Bing results exactly, everyone says they just show Bing results, but no one knows and it simply doesn’t mesh with my experience).
Because Bing does not randomly filter out half my terms while DDG does even for "-forced terms. This is my #1 problem with DDG and I complain about it in pretty much every DDG thread (while otherwise loving DDG).
For few result searches, DDG shows you essentially random stuff even if they have the result I want (which can be tested by searching for an exact sentence from the result page). On the other hand doing the search on Bing gives me the result without neutering my query.
The last time I did a comparison, Bing did better (I don’t know what DDG does with the Bing results exactly, everyone says they just show Bing results, but no one knows and it simply doesn’t mesh with my experience).
Because Bing does not randomly filter out half my terms while DDG does even for "-forced terms. This is my #1 problem with DDG and I complain about it in pretty much every DDG thread (while otherwise loving DDG).
For few result searches, DDG shows you essentially random stuff even if they have the result I want (which can be tested by searching for an exact sentence from the result page). On the other hand doing the search on Bing gives me the result without neutering my query.