Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo search changed something?

Posted by ycombinete on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:35AM
from the ask-hn dept.

For years I've been using DDG and very rarely had to turn to Google for a better search result. Lately I'm having to !g to Google on many searches. And using "search_string" for exact matches seems to fail completely...

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Re:Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo search changed something? by not_your_vase on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:39AM (#36122141)

I suspect this bug could be still related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254

There is a comment from the CEO with some clarifications (user yegg)

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Re:Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo search changed something? by bilegeek on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:52AM (#36122205)

For the quotes bit: I found a source[1] saying to append a + to the beginning of the quotes for verbatim mode.

Example: +"stanford waits"

Aside from that, I can't offer any answers; only commiseration.

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduck...

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Re:Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo search changed something? by frfsfgxffd on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:06AM (#36123429)

yeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-)

it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.

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