Agree. This even applies to simple Booleans, which are sometimes completely ignored.
I sometimes wonder about PMs who sign off on decisions like these, and the seeming lack of protest the developers put up.
Has anyone else experienced DuckDuckGo ignoring the exclusion operator? For example, searching `kiwi -fruit`, with no space between the hyphen and second word, used to bring up results that did not include the word "fruit". This no longer seems to be the case.
Re:Internet Search Tips
by lloydatkinson on Saturday July 22, 2023 @08:18AM
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Someone needs to build a meta search engine…
At least one existed in the dot com era. Forget the name.
Re:Internet Search Tips
by fuzztester on Saturday July 22, 2023 @10:55AM
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metacrawler, IIRC.
Re:Internet Search Tips
by dev_hugepages on Sunday July 23, 2023 @02:19AM
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searx/searxng?
> duckduckgo ... exclusion operator
Removed a few weeks ago.
Somebody posted in these pages the github diff showing the removal of the options.
> did I just have a stroke? those two searches are exactly the same.
I just had the exact same though while reading the page.
The fact Google's own documentation is this poorly kept is a astonishing.
Makes me a firm believer companies should have their documentation on GitHub (or similar) so anyone can make a PR to tidy these things up.
> https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433
> those two searches are exactly the same
Yes, that appears to be a recently-introduced typo -- the archived version from April does have a space: https://web.archive.org/web/20230412181331/https://support.g...
I submitted a feedback comment, hopefully they'll fix the typo.
(For future reference, here is a snapshot of the current version without a space: https://web.archive.org/web/20230722085337/https://support.g...)
The one not working has a space after the colon. It's even in the section taking about this :)
no, it doesn't.
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=allintitle:Neil+Dia...
now, I get crap like this:
how is that what I searched for? also, what is this:> A search for [site:nytimes.com] will work, but [site:nytimes.com] won't.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433
did I just have a stroke? those two searches are exactly the same. I try to be understanding, but I am constantly tripping over big companies glaring software and/or documentation issues, it gets old.