Well, it works much better if you spell out what you're searching for in this case. Try it?
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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?
#142Google 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
this!
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#143Google 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
Instagram is just AI. Take what the AI gives you.
There is no sorting. Nothing. The comments are ranked by the AI, the posts are ranked by the AI, the explore section is ranked by the AI.You can't sort by time or likes.
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I'm also very interested in the details. According to their website they are paying Google to provide them with the results. But the revenue streams to startpage are not provided on their homepage (or at least I haven't found them yet).
Edit: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... This gives additional information. Apparently they are showing ads that are only related to the search terms. I guess they are showing more ads than Google? Otherwise this wouldn't really make sense. Or maybe individualized advertisements in the search results aren't that much of a big money-maker for Google (!)
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#145Has it been fixed or something? I see lots of results. I'm in NZ.
Also in NZ and as you say lots of results but almost entirely related to the Russian social network 'vk'. Using mojeek, as suggested upthread, gives a much more diverse set of results. Which leaves the question why does NZ get a different set of results than some other places ?
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#146Ive 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 think you can prepend your search on DDG with !g and it'll search google for you, without leaking your info to google.
Your browser doesn't have a search bar or what?
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#147Earlier 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.
I have the same experience. I started to notice about 6 months ago. It's happening a lot more often that i'm frustrated with results even when looking for trivial stuff. My last search frustration was: 'bitmitigate'. I had to make a benchmark of CDN services and their company site isn't on the first page like other products i'm searching for. I suspect it's because this company had business with alt-right imageboards…
Odd. I put that in and got their Twitter, a Google "card" for the company, and then their site.
And articles pointing out that they serve Daily Stormer and 8chan.
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Heh, I don't even know how google feels, much like I don't know how ransomware and heroin feels. We don't really have to try everything in life, do we?
Congratulations on your moral superiority
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you can prepend your search on DDG with !g and it'll search google for you, without leaking your info to google.
You can use !s for StartPage for the “Google can’t see my queries” layer.
And, if you trust startpage I think there is a "bang" for that as well, maybe !s or something so a DDG user should be able to reach that too from DDG.
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the parent was retorting that anti-Russia sentiment in the US spans multiple generations.
Not if you’re a republican apparently.
They're only against Communism. Russians with money are just fine, apparently. The logical conclusion of "money is speech" is that foreign intelligence agencies can buy as much speech as they like.