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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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