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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 DocG »

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.

One thing I didnt think if when moved to ddg, is it's almost unusable in smaller languages and local stuff for smaller country..

Now I revert to Google for local and programming. It seems to me tho that the worse Google gets the better ddg gets.

But still beats having AMP, that was last straw for me.

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

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Post by tayo42 »

DevKoala wrote: post #115

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.

One of my issues with instagram is it cant be searched other then using hashtags. Those are just really crappy key words. So many artists put their art on there and its just sucked into a blackhole of pictures to never be seen again. It's impossible to search and find anything specific or anything that occurred more then a few hours ago

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

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Post by [deleted] »

pmachinery wrote: post #61
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 agree, sadly, and in (literally) every discussion on DDG that I've seen, people cite as one of DDG's plus points that you can use !g to search Google instead. Just out of curiosity, what do you (anyone reading) see when you search "curry" on DDG images?

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

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Post by mc32 »

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.

In my experience google is pretty good for fresh and current data. If you try to find things from some years back, results are overwhelmed by irrelevant current results —even setting custom dates doesn’t help much. Seems it’s biased for the present as well as content from big players (obviously), but to the detriment of smaller outfits.

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

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Post by stephenr »

meowface wrote: post #113
delaaxe wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More like, “that pertains to a given generation”

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

Not if you’re a republican apparently.

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

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Post by ergo14 »

Taek wrote: post #101
bachmeier wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Interesting, maybe for english speaking only. At least in my experience google has better results and I'm forced to !g often.

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

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Post by noobermin »

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...

is this region/area dependent? I just see pictures of people, nothing sexual if that's what you mean.
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