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

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VK is the most popular social media site in and near Russia. It is like Facebook there. A lot of pirated content exists there. Mainly songs.

But the image results are mostly little girls.

Fuck. What have I gotten into now. It's all strange pics of little girls. I just looked at the image tab now.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VK

No strange meanings either.

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

#52
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.

>without leaking your info to google.

Can you elaborate? It just does the same query on Google, how is it preventing leakage of information to Google?

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

#54
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.

Plenty of sites have terrible search and discovery stories. I routinely search in a general purpose search engine and filter to the site whose results I want because it's faster and more reliable than trying to navigate the site itself.

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

#55
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VK is the most popular social media site in and near Russia. It is like Facebook there. A lot of pirated content exists there. Mainly songs.

But the image results are mostly little girls.

yeah there is some absolutely questionable stuff there, I wonder why searching for VK brings them all up, some of these seem like random direct-to-youtube uploads but there's so many of kids that it almost seems like someone's collection, but why does a search for VK return them all? seems like a strange coincidence that there'd be troubling image results and empty normal results

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

#56
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.

You gain nothing privacy-wise by doing that.

DDG and google both know what you searched for. It is not a proxy. It just opens google search with the query

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

#57
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.

You can use !s for StartPage for the “Google can’t see my queries” layer.

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

#58
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.

Please use reddit search via the Reddit site, and then via Google/DDG to see the difference.

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

#59
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think you’re implying that Reddit’s search is subpar, which I agree, although it seems it has improved slightly, recently. When I want firsthand perspective on something I usually append “reddit” to my google searches instead of searching reddit itself, even if I have a reddit tab open already.

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

#60
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.

It's been a decade since the majority of sites had a usable search of their own. Many that still do are just hosting a site-specific Google search at this point.
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