Hey Google, I want my cache links back

Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back by thaumaturgy on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @05:02PM (#3049898)

I've been noticing the same pattern -- the results from DDG aren't quite complete enough. Sometimes, it's just missing a few minor things, other times, I'll run a search query and there will be a major search result that I know is missing, that I can get in one of the top 5 results from Google.

Which sucks, because I hands-down full-on no-buts prefer DDG's interface to Google.

I hope I'm not being uncool here, but a while back I privately suggested mining the data from "!g" queries as a way to see where DDG wasn't returning the results that people expected. Is there a reason you can't do that? In my case at least, I usually start with DDG, and if I don't get what I'm expecting, then I use a "!g" -- so you'd have a nice little database of results to perform comparisons from.

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Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back by BrandonM on Thursday September 29, 2011 @12:10AM (#3051092)

Since we can't see vote counts anymore, I just want to chime in and say I agree. As a previous DDG user, I feel much the same way. And mining !g sounds like a great idea, though there might be some privacy issues to deal with (I'm imagining a dedicated DDG user who wants to Google his name).

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