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

Post by mr-ron » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

svachalek wrote: post #71

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 actually like the results on DDG better than Google most of the time: 1. It's more likely to respond to the actual query, rather than guessing what I want based on the query. 2. The results are not stuffed with ads and Google service substitutions. However it's not as good at searching every last corner of the web, so occasionally I need to g!. It's pretty rare that I use that these days, and rarer that it actually…

Post by s0l1dsnak3123 » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:01 PM UTC

bhrgunatha wrote: post #63

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...

> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Quite the opposite. My search results from DDG over the past year or so have been infested with Russian sites, articles and even twitter account titles of English language accounts, despite not living there and not having any preference for Russian in any browsers settings or regions and never issuing a single query in Russian.

Post by unicodepepper » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

t0mbstone wrote: post #69

temp wrote: post #52

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>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?

If it runs the query through DDG's server side, then Google would just see at as an anonymous query along with a million other anonymous queries coming from DuckDuckGo's servers. Unfortunately, that's NOT what they do. Instead, they just forward you to the google search result, which is pointless and stupid.

Post by jameshush » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:39 PM UTC

rjzzleep wrote: post #21

I've been trying to use duckduckgo for almost a year, but I can't really justify it. I've even gotten used to just adding !g at the end of each search. It has terrible results for anything non english and pretty bad latency where in asia it seems. Does anyone have a recommendation for another search engine that does decently well in terms of privacy and also supports chinese results?

Post by vmception » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

s0l1dsnak3123 wrote: post #83

bhrgunatha wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Quite the opposite. My search results from DDG over the past year or so have been infested with Russian sites, articles and even twitter account titles of English language accounts, despite not living there and not having any preference for Russian in any browsers settings or regions and never issuing a single query in Russian.

"infested" is a little much, don't you think? I can sympathise with frustration on having results that don't match your language preferences, but "infested"? Come on.