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

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

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

pmachinery wrote: post #84
soco wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oops sorry. Mostly Steph Curry there, not much food. Very different than Google, can't tell what is better - depends which kind of curry one needs...

Thanks, and thank you too, svachalek. And yeah it's weird that the non-image search is fine, results about the food and about the player, but the image results really stand out. I have to say I didn't know who Steph Curry was before, but I'm impressed that in the US at least he's bigger than the food.

In general I would say image is more relevant to a human than food.

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

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Post by dwighttk »

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.

Tbh I don’t really generically search that much. I search within specific sites (e.g. Wikipedia, YouTube) but my first reach out for tool is rarely if ever generic web search. Lots of bangs on ddg

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

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Post by meowface »

delaaxe wrote: post #95
outworlder wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

More like, “that pertains to a given generation”

I think the parent was retorting that anti-Russia sentiment in the US spans multiple generations.

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

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Post by DevKoala »

Google forgets so much, and has a tendency to bias results, while DuckDuckGo is so incompetent at times. Add the walled gardens that can’t be searched unless you are part of them, and we have a worst search experience today than over a decade ago.

I am confident that the amount of data that needs to be indexed plays a huge factor too. It just isn’t as easy as it used to be.

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

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Post by oh_sigh »

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.

Google doesn't have any data on me and googling for local things works just fine if I put e.g. "plumber "

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

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Post by adolfojp »

toto444 wrote: post #13

The images returned by the search look quite dodgy.

You're not exaggerating.

There's definitely some suggestive underage content in there. Some of it looks like random photos gathered from the web but there's also some pedo / ephebo shit that was purposely made.

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

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Post by im3w1l »

TheNorthman wrote: post #49
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...

So this is a complete tangent, but one of the images was some photograph off a geocities archive site. The woman had red eyes. I realized I haven't seen that in years. Cameras sure have improved.
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