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Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by mostlysimilar »

mr-ron wrote: post #26

Ive 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…

Why not use DDG to find the correct site, and then use that site's built-in search for finding things within it?

Better yet, if I already know I want a particular doc or site, I'll go directly to that site instead of hopping through a search engine first.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

#42

Post by bilkow »

Whitespace wrote: post #22

Quoting it yields the expected result: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22vk%22&ia=web Compare with Bing (where DDG gets its search results from) https://www.bing.com/search?q=vk

Note that Bing is only one of their sources: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

#43

Post by ffpip »

slezyr wrote: post #36
ffpip wrote: post #20

Manually 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...

I don't think this is it. VK has an english version as well. I've seen it being used by the English-speaking people.

Yes. It definitely has more than 100 million users.

It might be a Yandex partnership to not show outside Russia

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

#45

Post by h4l0 »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #41
mr-ron wrote: post #26

Ive 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…

Why not use DDG to find the correct site, and then use that site's built-in search for finding things within it? Better yet, if I already know I want a particular doc or site, I'll go directly to that site instead of hopping through a search engine first.

Let me introduce you to a site called Reddit.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

#46

Post by bad_user »

majormunky wrote: post #39
mr-ron wrote: post #26

Ive 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…

I think you can prepend your search on DDG with !g and it'll search google for you, without leaking your info to google.

Actually, by searching with !g, you’re leaking your info to both DuckDuckGo and Google, instead of just Google.

If you want to do Google searches without leaking your data to Google, you could use Startpage.com, but personally I don’t trust Startpage more than Google.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

#47

Post by xVedun »

PCChris wrote: post #19
ISL wrote: post #10

Earlier 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.

I found that going to the last page showed a more realistic number for results. This would only be shown on that "last page" of results though. However, it does seem strange that there are only 447 results for a google search of "apple"[0] down from a whopping 4,070,000,000 results shown before that page. And that is with show omitted results. Seems like max result limiting for the 0.1% of users that want to look past page 10 of search results

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&start=440&sa=N&filter=...

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

#48

Post by canadaduane »

majormunky wrote: post #39
mr-ron wrote: post #26

Ive 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…

I think you can prepend your search on DDG with !g and it'll search google for you, without leaking your info to google.

This is what I do as well. Privacy by default, more precision when needed.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by TheNorthman »

toto444 wrote: post #13

The images returned by the search look quite dodgy.

The images returned on DuckDuckGo are, in general, really dodgy. While debugging a web-server of mine, I recently found that various constant strings of file servers return similarly `dodgy' results, like for example "Index of /" [0].

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Index+of+%2F%22&iax=images&ia=i...

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

#50

Post by IncRnd »

mrlatinos wrote: post #29
css wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These results are not in the language I have my browser set to, so maybe it is filtering based on language.

No if you change the language to Russian, it still shows the single result in English. Changing region is the only way around it.

That's not correct. You can show the proper results without setting the region. Do this by adding an empty token that doesn't get stripped, "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vk+%22%22". That also shows the results list.
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