Well that's weird. Searching vkontakte gives a lot of results (in the realm of what you would expect). Maybe it's a command or something else is happening with that query?
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia=web Searching by putting region=Russia gives more results
Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
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Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google returns: "About 782,000,000 results (0.45 seconds) "
If you actually click through Google's result pages, you will find that there are actually only about 87 results. Even if you "repeat the search with the omitted results included" Google returns only about 226 results. Google's estimated result count is routinely off by so much as to make it virtually useless.
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#33Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#34!vk is one of DDG Bangs. This may have something to do with it. https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=vk
Searching YT gives results https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=yt
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google returns: "About 782,000,000 results (0.45 seconds) "
If you actually click through Google's result pages, you will find that there are actually only about 87 results. Even if you "repeat the search with the omitted results included" Google returns only about 226 results. Google's estimated result count is routinely off by so much as to make it virtually useless.
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#36Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia=web Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Because they use Yandex in Russia. https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/a7nl1v/duckduck...
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#37Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google returns: "About 782,000,000 results (0.45 seconds) "
If you actually click through Google's result pages, you will find that there are actually only about 87 results. Even if you "repeat the search with the omitted results included" Google returns only about 226 results. Google's estimated result count is routinely off by so much as to make it virtually useless.
But yeah, estimated result count is still a big lie either way
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#39Ive been using DDG as a default search for a while now. My conclusion is that the results are just NOT as good as Google's. I find myself using Google searches for time sensitive or mission critical searches, which totally defeats the purpose of a search engine. As an example, I was playing around with Phaser and found that DDG just does not surface the entire Phaser documentation or forums correctly, and had to swit…