I switched to duck duck go back in the day cause I felt like the quantity of bullshit (not the ads but the ones that are supposed to help you with your search) were detrimental to my “keyword picking ability”… now going back to Google feels unreal
Same here. DDG is so much better. And I love that I can do
!mcwiki diamondto search the minecraft wiki for “diamonds”I ended up switching because Google changed their image search design that was just so much more difficult to browse
My problem with ddg is that I can’t refine my search by excluding keywords, only by adding more. For example, it’s frustrating if I’m looking to buy a product locally and half the page is Amazon results.
If I add
-amazonto the query on ddg I don’t get any Amazon results. Is this not the case for you?It is not. It works fine for google, but not for DDG.
That is weird. I wonder why we are seeing so different behavior from ddg.
You can do that on ddg. See this link: http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax
This is a tragedy. I will have to see if this still works on Bing
You can still.
Under the Tools dropdown you can change it from “All Results” to “Verbatim”.
Try this: https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=tacos site:reddit.com
So weird, check this out: https://postimg.cc/f3JYZmff
Wow, that’s really strange. They aren’t marked as ads either…
maybe try the inurl operator
Our cutting edge algorithm must feed you the content of whoever pays more. You don’t choose anymore. and you have to accept it.
BR, Paid Search Engines after investments dries.
@rosenjcb I gave up on Google search a few months ago. It got to a point where it would consistently show me nonsense that was written to farm ad revenue. DuckDuckGo has been better for me (once you disable the ability to show ads in the search results), but I still get occurrences of it showing me nonsense. Like, I tried looking up information on the Super Smash Bros Brawl mod Project+, and it kept showing me information on some certification.
Search operators have been worthless on Google for many years now. it’s extremely frustrating when you’re trying to sift through the SEO hellscape
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Catering to natural language search queries are fine, I used to think, as long as we could optionally use our search operators.
Now they took the operators away, and all search results are either blatant ads or SEO spams pretending not to be spams.
Fuck.
I just tried searching the same thing and it works for me
Same here - only Reddit results.
I can’t reproduce this on desktop. can you try again in desktop mode
For me it is still working. But ig it will go all downhill rather quickly.
Can’t reproduce on mobile from EU. May be goe-limited or a study (google tests potential features on subset of users)
Is there a way to to something like this for Lemmy? This is one thing that I used all the time for Reddit and found immensely useful.
There’s someone actually building this right now. It’s a Lemmy search engine. https://browse.feddit.de
Search-Lemmy is under development for this.
https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search
It’s still in EARLY development so expect bugs.
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I recently switched my default search from Google to DuckDuckGo: Google has begun refusing to find anything while exact same search on DuckDuckGo just works. Google is slower because I have to think+ignore first half of the page due to Ads/SEO crud.
Works fine for me.
I always have used inurl: instead to great effect. For instance if I wanted just the technology subreddit it would be inurl:reddit.com/r/technology
Between this and Amazon it’s almost completely useless to search anything through them. You just need to go to forums to get recommendations and reviews
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