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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 newen »

vmception wrote: post #180
pjc50 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Protip: its not just Russians playing around with sentiment in other countries for their own gains, and it is extremely easy to deflect all attention towards Russia. It can be long time allies that you harbor the least feelings about.

The US has been doing it for well over 50 years.

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

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Post by newen »

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.

Similar. I end up googling around a good quarter of my ddg searches.

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

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Post by whoatethedonut »

Jenk wrote: post #125

Clicking the images tab probably explains why. There are many pictures of very young girls in various states of undress.

VK is the Russian "social media and social networking service" so it tracks that there would be a lot of images, frightening as they may be.

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Post by dredmorbius »

dredmorbius wrote: post #176
nefitty wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you’re implying that Reddit’s search is subpar, which I agree, although it seems it has improved slightly, recently. When I want firsthand perspective on something I usually append “reddit” to my google searches instead of searching reddit itself, even if I have a reddit tab open already.

On relatively sparse, self-post (fow or no link) subreddits, Reddit search is fairly useful for searchin posts only . Comments are not indexed. At volume and with links, search breaks down from both insufficient context (esppecially with editorialised, sensationalised, or vague titles) and excess low-yield content.

s/fow/few/
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