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Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#61

Post by shmerl »

teeray wrote: post #14

Bang commands[0] really sealed DDG for me. I know Firefox had install-your-own search plugins forever, but the total lack of friction of typing “!yt badgerbadgerbadger” to get specifically YouTube results was fantastic. !g (search on Google) also makes it far easier to switch. Don’t like the results? Prefix !g and try again. My other favorites: !sr [name of subreddit] - much faster than “reddit.com/r/[name]” !r - Red…

I usually add bangs in the end of the string, since it makes editing and removing them easier if needed.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#62

Post by Kiro »

kucing wrote: post #54
sansnomme wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DuckDuckGo uses Bing underneath so the company whom you should really be complaining to is MSFT.

Can I get a reference to this? :)

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#63

Post by TheGallopedHigh »

shmerl wrote: post #61
teeray wrote: post #14

Bang commands[0] really sealed DDG for me. I know Firefox had install-your-own search plugins forever, but the total lack of friction of typing “!yt badgerbadgerbadger” to get specifically YouTube results was fantastic. !g (search on Google) also makes it far easier to switch. Don’t like the results? Prefix !g and try again. My other favorites: !sr [name of subreddit] - much faster than “reddit.com/r/[name]” !r - Red…

I usually add bangs in the end of the string, since it makes editing and removing them easier if needed.

Longtime user did not know could do this; cheers.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#64

Post by archi42 »

Dawny33 wrote: post #25

As long as the search results don't need to be extremely localized, I found DDG much better and less obnoxious for a year. Still can't get away from "Pizzerias around me" style queries on G + not expecting DDG to take these up anytime soon, as they are probably like 10% of my search queries per day anyways.

Similar for me: If I want to look up a doctors phone number or the location/opening hours of a shop I still fall back to Google.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#65

Post by TheGallopedHigh »

sansnomme wrote: post #17
nbrempel wrote: post #3

Over the past 5 years I’ve tried DDG several times. Each time except the last I wanted to stick with it but the results simply didn’t stand up to what I’d see on Google. About 6 months ago (a year? I can’t remember) I switched and haven’t looked back. Now, when I look at google, the results actually look less relevant. As well, the ads on Google have become very obnoxious. I don’t feel like I’m being served the best…

DuckDuckGo uses Bing underneath so the company whom you should really be complaining to is MSFT.

I was under the impression it was Yandex

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#66

Post by kilroy123 »

jnericks wrote: post #46
teeray wrote: post #14

Bang commands[0] really sealed DDG for me. I know Firefox had install-your-own search plugins forever, but the total lack of friction of typing “!yt badgerbadgerbadger” to get specifically YouTube results was fantastic. !g (search on Google) also makes it far easier to switch. Don’t like the results? Prefix !g and try again. My other favorites: !sr [name of subreddit] - much faster than “reddit.com/r/[name]” !r - Red…

You can also use the bang command at the end of your query.... Just learned this myself recently and makes changing your search engine quickly if you don't like the results

I didn't know this, thank you.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#67

Post by xeeeeeeeeeeenu »

andrenotgiant wrote: post #31

I love DDG, I just want to point out that everyone is hating on Google's new search results, in part because of a distracting favicon, and DuckDuckGo results have had similar favicons for months now.

People who complain about the favicon don't understand what their real problem is. It's the extremely distracting breadcrumb above the result's title.

DuckDuckGo and Qwant have favicons in their search results and they don't cause the same UX problems.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#68

Post by catalogia »

heavyset_go wrote: post #34
throwaway8941 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JFYI, there's no need to install anything. Focus on a search field on (almost any) website, open the context menu, and "Add a keyword for this search". Put a letter or two into the "keyword" input. Profit.

Mozilla is deprecating OpenSearch support in Firefox[1] at some point. The OpenSearch standard is what provides this functionality. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add...

What the fuck.. Mozilla is really hell bent in this war on their own users aren't they?

Does this mean I'll have to install an extension to replace each search keyword I have? That would be dozens of extensions, many of them for obscure niche websites.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

#70

Post by Twisell »

LilBytes wrote: post #4

I've been using DDG for a while now, my biggest if not only concern with DDG is local specific events or chronologically close events. If my search string has or shares close proximity to either an event in the past or a local event else where of a similar name, I rarely find my results. For instance during the Australian Election recently, if I searched for Australian Election I was never returned results for the el…

Totally feel the same here in France especially for recent news.

I guess Google obviously have more horsepower and manage to index in realtime majors news outlets and selected social accounts recursively.

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