We're improving search results when you use quotes

Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by bigyikes on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:08PM (#32351088)

I was a DDG user for the past year, and I consistently found myself falling back to the big G due to poor result quality.

I recently started paying for Kagi[1] and I’ve been very pleased with the results. I haven’t felt the need to use a different search engine since switching. (No affiliation; just a happy customer)

[1]: https://kagi.com/

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by DanHulton on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:04AM (#32351461)

I am also a happy kagi paying user, for the extra data point.

I do occasionally switch back to DDG for non-technical searches, but even that has been rarer and rarer as time goes on.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by autoexec on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:17AM (#32351577)

I still give DDG first shot at my searches, but their results have been getting worse and worse. I'd blame the people they scrape their results from but nobody is stopping DDG from handling search operators correctly so we can narrow down whatever gets spewed back at us. Even worse several times recently DDG just returns a blank page.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by carrotcarrot on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:37AM (#32352913)

A lot of DDG is just a front end for Bing.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by Johnythree on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:45AM (#32356034)

I'm very happy to pay Kargi a small fee, so that I never have to see Google ever again.

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