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I got a new computer (Mac Mini) last week and, as the ritual usually goes, I opened Safari and was about to type “google.com/chrome”, then stopped myself and went to “getfirefox.com” instead. It’s been a while since I gave FF a serious look, and so far I haven’t felt like I’m missing anything. Next up, I need to change my default search engine to DDG. What’s a good privacy-oriented, web-based email service? I’ve hear…
AMP results are annoying enough on mobile that I switched my default search engine to duckduckgo on my phone.
Idk I really appreciate the lack of cookie popups and subscribe to this and that popups that can occupy almost the entire screen bedoree being dismissed on mobile.
Hi all! I'm an engineer who worked on this feature. I can't speak to the general concerns about AMP, but I can say that we didn't remove the original url here intentionally - we actually never added it to the Images version. Sorry for the oversight, we're working on bringing it back now!
Malte Ubl from Google responded via Twitter:[0] > Just heard from the Image Search team that this is an oversight and they'll add the feature! Sorry about that and thanks for the report! [0]: https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1265688067706245120
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"site:somewebsite.com some_search" works just fine on DDG.
sorry, just checked, it's the wildcard that isn't working. So 'site:*.co.uk'
Appears to work?
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It really isn't as good. I want DDG to be awesome. I'm not in the Google ecosystem, and don't care for their business practices. I would be happy to dump them. But Google search is noticeably much, much better. They've got us over a barrel.
I kept seeing comments on HN about how DDG was as good as Google, so i've switched on one of my machines. It isn't. For stuff that doesn't matter too much, or is an easy search, i use DDG, then fall back to Google if i don't find what i need. For anything serious, i just open up a Google tab :(
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sorry, just checked, it's the wildcard that isn't working. So 'site:*.co.uk'
"whatever site:uk" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=whatever+site%3Auk Appears to work?
AMP results are annoying enough on mobile that I switched my default search engine to duckduckgo on my phone.
Malte Ubl from Google responded via Twitter:[0] > Just heard from the Image Search team that this is an oversight and they'll add the feature! Sorry about that and thanks for the report! [0]: https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1265688067706245120
Sounds like classic Google "Oops after oops": https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
Me: When can we expect to see a fix? As of right now, there’s no easy way to visit the original URL.
Malte Ubl: I don't have a timeline. The share menu should help getting the underlying URL!
Me: I’m sure I don’t need to explain how this looks; regardless of your intentions, it comes across as a fairly hollow response. The issue gets a lot of negative attention on HN, someone from Google responds that it was just an accident and will be fixed, but there’s no fix.
Malte Ubl: Sorry, no way to do it in fewer than a couple days.
Me: That sounds like a timeline to me. :)