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Any recommendation? I use ddg but it's Bing based and the results are no better.
DuckDuckGo is not Bing based.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any recommendation? I use ddg but it's Bing based and the results are no better.
My experience with ddg has been very positive over the years. Although I think my eyes have gotten good at skipping over the noise in the search results. It might be nice to offload that effort to software.
DDG has no idea of the intent of your search based on your previous searches and unfortunately this generates abysmal results for me when searching for something like `ruby xxx`. Those terms rarely return results about the programming language. I unfortunately end up using Google in these situations, always to immediate success.
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#103Use a search engine that doesn't fuck up your results instead of trying to unfuck the results it gives you. Why go through this much effort to still give your money to google?
I don't like Brave Browser at all with its integrated crypto ads, but I've been using Brave Search for a couple of days and it seems nice, much better than DDG:
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Any recommendation? I use ddg but it's Bing based and the results are no better.
DuckDuckGo is not Bing based.
It does in fact use the Bing backend for the majority of its web searches:
> DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). 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).
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
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What reasons?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
My experience with ddg has been very positive over the years. Although I think my eyes have gotten good at skipping over the noise in the search results. It might be nice to offload that effort to software.
DDG has no idea of the intent of your search based on your previous searches and unfortunately this generates abysmal results for me when searching for something like `ruby xxx`. Those terms rarely return results about the programming language. I unfortunately end up using Google in these situations, always to immediate success.
>ruby xxx
Not sure if the X's were to denote wildcards or if you're after porn actresses named Ruby, but either way it might be worth adding a term to the query to clarify
Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?
#108Use a search engine that doesn't fuck up your results instead of trying to unfuck the results it gives you. Why go through this much effort to still give your money to google?
Any recommendation? I use ddg but it's Bing based and the results are no better.
I've been using Kagi over the last few days and have actually been pleasantly surprised with it performing better than both Google and DDG for my use cases. It's still free during the beta so might be worth giving it a shot.
Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?
#109Use a search engine that doesn't fuck up your results instead of trying to unfuck the results it gives you. Why go through this much effort to still give your money to google?
I use ecosia.org wich is like ddg, but a part of the proceeds go into charity. Not affiliated with them, just like it a lot.
Like ddg it's just Bing with a gimmick, but it's decent.
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