The Feature Google Killed The + Command For Is Now Dead

Re:The Feature Google Killed The + Command For Is Now Dead by hrktb on Sunday June 22, 2014 @10:13AM (#7927868)

For accuracy duckduckgo is leaps and bounds better than google search. But I think what most of the users want from a generic search engine is not accuracy but fuzziness, context and news awaresness.

For instance if I search ping pong in google right now, my first result is a currently airing japanese tv series about ping pong (and the show name is not even in the same alphabet I used to search). Duckduckgo returns the english wikipedia article.

Also, the title of this article is so messed up...

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Re:The Feature Google Killed The + Command For Is Now Dead by hga on Sunday June 22, 2014 @10:52AM (#7927967)

Interesting.

I get Wikipedia's Table Tennis entry first (I do use Wikipedia a lot). The first page includes 5 local/state related links, also has an "In-depth articles" section at the bottom with three items. The 2nd page is good as well, I personally can't complain, although I still rue the day they zapped the + operator.

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Re:The Feature Google Killed The + Command For Is Now Dead by giergirey on Monday June 23, 2014 @07:09AM (#7931237)

One more personalisation data-point ... I get the Ping Pong Dim Sum restaurant chain as my top result when I google for ping pong! Not entirely unreasonable since I am in London where their restaurants are located and I do eat dim sum more often than I play table tennis ...

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