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Re: Odd DuckDuckGo Search Results

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Post by eksith »

A few sporadic, way out there, results and the rest are stats pages. Which is to be expected in the wake of people switching (and mentioning) that they're now using DDG as well as sites putting up links to referrers.

I wonder if anyone who works there can chime in.

Re: Odd DuckDuckGo Search Results

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Post by cyphax »

SwaroopH wrote: post #3

I am seeing this happen with regular searches as well, not always but a few times randomly.

I'm seeing this more and more since the start of this week. Actually this search engine is now almost unusable, because when this happens, almost all of the results are completely unrelated, or otherwise unreadable, being filled with HTML entities. Only some results are vaguely related but still not what I'm searching for.

Damnit, I switched away from Google for a good reason, I'm not willing to give that up, but DDG has to be at least usable or it's pointless as it's a search engine. It must be able to search.

Re: Odd DuckDuckGo Search Results

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Post by cahitonur »

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+capital+city+of+califo...

I made DuckDuckGo as my default search engine two weeks ago and in the end I realized that most of the time the results doesn't satisfy me and I make the search again with !g prefix. DDG is still my default search engine and will stay as default until I get tired of this. I hope they are working on better results and I hope they will achieve this soon or I hope I can find a better search engine except commercial ones.

Re: Odd DuckDuckGo Search Results

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Post by kidfortoday »

cyphax wrote: post #6
SwaroopH wrote: post #3

I am seeing this happen with regular searches as well, not always but a few times randomly.

I'm seeing this more and more since the start of this week. Actually this search engine is now almost unusable, because when this happens, almost all of the results are completely unrelated, or otherwise unreadable, being filled with HTML entities. Only some results are vaguely related but still not what I'm searching for. Damnit, I switched away from Google for a good reason, I'm not willing to give that up, but DDG…

I've made the switch to Blekko for the time being.

Re: Odd DuckDuckGo Search Results

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Post by cyphax »

kidfortoday wrote: post #8
cyphax wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing this more and more since the start of this week. Actually this search engine is now almost unusable, because when this happens, almost all of the results are completely unrelated, or otherwise unreadable, being filled with HTML entities. Only some results are vaguely related but still not what I'm searching for. Damnit, I switched away from Google for a good reason, I'm not willing to give that up, but DDG…

I've made the switch to Blekko for the time being.

Thank you for the tip, I'll look into it. I also hope DDG will be fixed because right now, I'm having a hard time finding anything with it. :(
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