I believe they’ve said that explicit operators are much more expensive to serve than a regular search, so that’s probably why they don’t respect them. Especially a - operator.
rem26_art@fedia.io 3 months ago
I know at least duckduckgo says on their syntax page that they're aware that operator usage isn't perfect on their site. Seems to come from the fact that they pull results from multiple sources
subtext@lemmy.world 3 months ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
DDG, because they’re so heavily reliant on bing, has gone to absolute shit recently. I’m just about to quit them. Every link in the top ten goes to some M$N / microsoft-adjacent garbage.
Bluefruit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh so its not just me who thinks its gotten worse then. I was starting to go a little crazy man. It seems like its slowly gottwn worse over time. I wonder if its due to the amount of ai content messing up seo ratings or something
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not just you, no. Microsoft has just gone nuts with their overreach and DDG appears to be collateral damage. After ? A long time of being fine for 90% of what I needed.
konalt@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Duckduckgo is awful at searching for specific memes I need. Sometimes I only remember the text and a rough description of the image, but DDG seems only to consider images with Impact TOP TEXT BOTTOM TEXT captions to be memes. I switch to Google and I find the one I want instantly. If there was a way to have the image results of Google with the web results of DDG my life would be complete
Tixanou@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You might want to look into 4get and SearXNG
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Yeah, after some years of DDG getting worse I finally dropped them. I switched to Brave and it’s surprisingly decent for an independent search engine. If you search for something that they don’t have good results for they’ll ask you if you want to get anonymous results from google as well, which means I don’t usually have to switch search engines for harder results.
They do seem to have a much lower number of image results though.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
brave can go fuck itself
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why? I’ve never used it, so not disagreeing, but that seems a pretty strong reaction to a search engine.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
every day it looks more and more clear that we’re gonna have no choice but pay for kagi if we want to find anything worth a fuck on the internet
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s the conclusion I keep coming to as well, and its kind of sad.
Flightbird386@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I use -msn , which seems to help somewhat