What were you expecting?
Are you a bot? What a mindbogglingly-stupid question.
Surely “vk” appears on more than 1 page on the web, so… show those pages? Like, y’know, a search engine.
This feels worse than trying to explain a joke.
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?
#152Well, it works much better if you spell out what you're searching for in this case. Try it? Voight-Kampff
There's a lot more things VK is an abbreviation for. Why aren't they showing up?
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#153Clicking the images tab probably explains why. There are many pictures of very young girls in various states of undress.
What the hell? Serious wtf. Can anyone explain this?
BTW, NSFW warning!
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It shouldn't be, perhaps you have `Safe Search' turned on? (It is by default)
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#155Clicking the images tab probably explains why. There are many pictures of very young girls in various states of undress.
We hired a baby sitter once that was from Ukraine. I made the mistake of Googling her unique name. Her VK profile was a whole different person from the sitter at my house.
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#156Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#157My main problem with ddg is that it's much slower than Bing to load the results. Bing is just so much snappier than even Google for me. I wonder if there's something wrong with my internet.
Not just for you. Bing is very fast. MS wants people to use it.
It is the page that loads the fastest for me..
Not that DDG, google is slow. Bing is just fast
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#158Moved on from DDG long ago (currently it's mostly Qwant for me).
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#159Earlier 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.
Google search has gotten a lot worse for me now that I use it as a backup for DDG. There's some categories it still does well, but other things are like DDG doesn't find it, but neither will Google. I'm not sure how much of that is Google going downhill (which was a trend before I switched), and how much is the loss of personalization data.
I've also noticed google has developed an extreme recency bias in search results. If you're searching for a term that is somehow related even tangentially to any hot or trending topic over the past year, it is virtually impossible to find relevant, yet dated sources on that topic. I know I can do the timeline filter and all that, but sometimes it's not obvious what window of time you should be searching, etc.
Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russia only bad. It's a generational thing.
By 'generational', you mean "spanning multiple generations"?
I mean the sentiment lacks nuance and it gives context to why someone would use pejorative adjectives about Russian-anything even when referring to search engine results
And you can pinpoint which generations of people are likely speaking by their use of said pejoratives on otherwise benign subjects