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

#91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Russia only bad. It's a generational thing.

By 'generational', you mean "spanning multiple generations"?

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

#93
DuckDuckGo isn't the best search engine. I really want it to be. I use it a by default and I use it often. However, especially when I'm searching for products/things to buy I end up on google search. DuckDuckGo is more like old school search, think Altavista - tons of results but not much useful.

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

#94

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?

Interestingly, ВК (vk in cyrillic) gives also 1 result.

The single result it gives is a link to VKontakte. Given that it's largely a walled garden, I think that's a reasonable result to give, with no other input.

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

#97
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…

Same. DDG often requires 1-2 additional search terms to give it enough context, but in return I get results that are actually relevant instead of half a page full of pinterest links and other spam content.

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

#98

DuckDuckGo isn't the best search engine. I really want it to be. I use it a by default and I use it often. However, especially when I'm searching for products/things to buy I end up on google search. DuckDuckGo is more like old school search, think Altavista - tons of results but not much useful.

Maybe it's because Google has very little data on me, but I find Google to be horrible in 2020. It's degraded considerably over the years to the point that I don't even try Google if DDG doesn't return anything useful. It's especially useless if I'm trying to buy something. If I search for a service business using my hometown, it'll return results from businesses everywhere other than my hometown.

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

#100
post #34

!vk is one of DDG Bangs. This may have something to do with it. https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=vk

!yt is also a bang for Youtube. Searching YT gives results https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=yt

Prob someone at ddg wrote an if statement for yt and not for vk...
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