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w3m works fine for me. Any reason people prefer lynx over w3m or eww?
Another person notes that ddg is inferior. Maybe people get used to a certain way of searching with Google that doesn't translate to ddg. Haven't noticed a drop in quality myself and I think I might have been retrained to use different patterns and techniques in structuring my queries.
Search is hard.
I don't like to chime in to say something negative about an underdog like DDG, but I see this "people probably just don't know how to use DDG" suggestion a lot and it's quite the opposite: Google feels like it can practically read my mind with minimal context, like knowing I also may be talking about a recent event that shares the name with a generic search term. And I'm not talking about personalized search.
Or consider how "elm dict" in Google takes me to https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm/core/latest/Dict (#1 result), but https://duckduckgo.com/?q=elm+dict&t=h_&ia=web in DDG doesn't (nowhere on page 1).
Run into this enough and it becomes hard to willfully use DDG when you know you're likely missing out on good results when trying to do real work.
The redesigned version of Google Search that is being A/B tested no longer shows links. Despite being a developer, I'm anxious to click search results, especially because when results are filtered to be from the last day or week, they are full of phishing sites and pages with scraped content that immediately redirect to malware. This change can't possibly be beneficial to users. It makes people even more ignorant abo…
They took urls away and then added this: https://i.imgur.com/RI4xxgs.png For example, searched "hierarchy" and it'll show "en.wikipedia.org > wiki > hierarchy" above the wikipedia search result. > This change can't possibly be beneficial to users. You're right if the url/domain isn't even shown at all. But I can think of a few benefits of showing the domain as it currently does, like to avoid phishing. It also basica…
It looked like this: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-is-testing-search...
I feel like many of the text-mode browsers have failed to keep up with changing web standards. We were all mad when IE was holding back the Internet, and I'm not sure we should give lynx and w3m a pass because they're geek tools. (Accessibility is an important concern, but web browsers running under a GUI system support screen readers.) https://www.brow.sh/ is a console-based browser that claims to support modern sta…
w3m works fine for me. Any reason people prefer lynx over w3m or eww?
Jumping from "this isn't working on my incredibly niche browser" to "Google don't care about blind people" is completely ridiculous.
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They took urls away and then added this: https://i.imgur.com/RI4xxgs.png For example, searched "hierarchy" and it'll show "en.wikipedia.org > wiki > hierarchy" above the wikipedia search result. > This change can't possibly be beneficial to users. You're right if the url/domain isn't even shown at all. But I can think of a few benefits of showing the domain as it currently does, like to avoid phishing. It also basica…
Multiple versions are being tested. The one I've seen does not contain the domain, not even in a tokenized form. It looked like this: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-is-testing-search...