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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by pmontra on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:39AM (#30174534)
I fall back to !g when I don't find what I'm looking for. It happens too often for technical things. And Google is the only one that handles "verbatim searches". At least I'm splitting my trail of data between two companies.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by nightski on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:02AM (#30174647)
I hear people say this but I haven't even desired to use a !g for several years now (good riddance). I wonder if it is for certain types of tech.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by pmontra on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:11AM (#30204515)
I found an example right now.

I looked on DDG for _ubuntu turn on a usb disk after it was switched off_ and it didn't return anything related to the query. I added !g and Google gave me [1] as the second result.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/1626369/power-off-external-d...

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by lumost on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:13AM (#30177780)
It’s common for “ambiguous search terms” similar to “python database”.

I’d bet that an experienced ddg user might have workarounds for this kind of thing. I’ve certainly found adding a few extra terms gives me what I need.

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