Someone recently posted a hot tip about adding "before:2023" to Google web searches and I forget who it was but wow what a huge difference it makes. So thank you to whoever that was. It gets rid of so much AI-generated SEO crap.
To everyone complaining about DDG, what are you using? I’ve been using DDG for years now and it’s been fine for me. I have also been testing out StartPage.
I often just get 0 results on ddg, or I know that I should get a specific one and don’t (e.g. recently I tried to find the painting “in a Roman trattoria” by describing it).
Are you a native English speaker in an English speaking country looking for English pages?
Because as a French speaker, when I tried DDG a few years ago, it was pretty hard to have some useful results. Like, I was looking for some local results and they were nowhere to be found.
I know it got better, that it’s possible to tweak this, and that I should try it again. But because the first impression wasn’t good for me, it made me dubious about giving it another try.
Are you a native English speaker in an English speaking country looking for English pages?
That is correct. I’ve not experienced the issue you’re facing since I don’t often search DDG in my second language but I’ve heard of people having the issue you mentioned.
To everyone complaining about DDG, what are you using? I’ve been using DDG for years now and it’s been fine for me. I have also been testing out StartPage.
SearXNG - the fediverse of searches
Doesn’t it just use Google / Bing under the hood? If those both suck then it wouldn’t improve much, right? Isn’t SearXNG more about privacy?
Its more about the customizability. One searxng search can search through 100 search engines if you really wanted it to
Almost all other search engines (ddg, kagi, etc) also use google / bing dataset to augment their search data.
Kagi
Every time I switch to DDG I’m constantly discovering things that I can’t find because they just don’t pop up in the results
Maybe I’m having a stroke…but…
Wat
I assume they mean something like:
Every time I switch to DDG, I tend to discover things that I can’t find on google because they just don’t pop up in googlee results
I pronounced googlee as “goo glee” and it was fun
I often just get 0 results on ddg, or I know that I should get a specific one and don’t (e.g. recently I tried to find the painting “in a Roman trattoria” by describing it).
Google always had to come to the rescue
Ddg, what is the definition of insanity?
They may mean unable to find again?
perplexity
Are you a native English speaker in an English speaking country looking for English pages?
Because as a French speaker, when I tried DDG a few years ago, it was pretty hard to have some useful results. Like, I was looking for some local results and they were nowhere to be found.
I know it got better, that it’s possible to tweak this, and that I should try it again. But because the first impression wasn’t good for me, it made me dubious about giving it another try.
That is correct. I’ve not experienced the issue you’re facing since I don’t often search DDG in my second language but I’ve heard of people having the issue you mentioned.
Searx
Ddg.
I haven’t seen anyone complain about duck duck go for several years.
This thread has some people discussing how they feel it isn’t great compared to others.
What about the past participle though? With Google it’s easy - I Googled it. But DuckDuckGoed? That doesn’t sound right. DuckDuckWent?
Searched?
This man ducks
I don’t complain about DDG (it’s been years since the last time I used it) but I’m using Qwant.