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

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Post by Taek »

bachmeier wrote: post #98
annoyingnoob wrote: post #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.

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.

Same boat here. More often than not DDG has substantially more useful results than Google does.

Sometimes Google is better though, especially when I'm looking for something specific (an article I know I read or a video I know I watched, etc)

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

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Post by solarkraft »

annoyingnoob wrote: post #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.

I agree, somewhat. While the results are clearly worse my feeling is that they are covering more of my use cases as time passes. The really cool thing (and a trick Google themselves used in the beginning) is that a Google search is only a !g away, so I can easily have it as my default search engine.

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

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Post by solarkraft »

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.

Google searches also often yield Russian sites for me, mostly what appears to be StackOverflow translations.

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

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Post by AviationAtom »

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?

Whoogle Search

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

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

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Post by retube »

jameshush wrote: post #87
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?

Startpage.com is the one I use day to day (I work at the company that owns it). They use straight Google results through a proxy in their own data centers, it's anonymized before it hits anything

what kind of a deal do they have with Google? why would Google agree to this?

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

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Post by pb7 »

bilkow wrote: post #42
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...

>We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

It's mostly just Bing.

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