Comment on Whats the best search engine that looks similar to google

Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ok, after using DDG for 3-4 weeks, its come to my attention that this search engine is kinda fucking annoying to use ;m;

  First thing, it doesn’t correct the misspellings for me like google does, I have to fix them myself. idrk if theres a fix for that

  second thing, it is now ALSO giving me heavily unrelated shit to what im trying to search. Im trynna look up things like “How to make Kava taste good” and its giving me articles on just what Kava is. or I’m looking up, “Why do all the good people die first and bad people live on” and its giving me articles on what personality traits live the longest. It’s some how WORSE than google, cus now I have to do even more tweaking in my searches just to get it to fucking stop, it wouldnt even tell me if the word “Am” is a Pronoun or not, I had to scroll through a bunch of unrelated shit before giving up and using google. What the fuck :(

  Thirdly, there is no third complaint really- im just getting really really sick and tired of DDG giving me random/unrelated shit. maybe im not doin something right, idk, but its frustrating as fuck.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    do you mean it doesn’t correct your misspellings as you type or it doesn’t correct your search terms?

    mine corrects my search terms if i type colude instead of collude or something,

    " is am a pronoun" gives me “am is not a pronoun”.

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    there are a few results under that mentioning that “am” should be used with pronouns, heavily implying that it isn’t a pronoun itself.

    that’s a tricky search because “am” is such a small and common word, I get more direct results (after the direct answer from duckassist) If I put quotes around am, like

    is “am” a pronoun?

    sorry it didn’t work out for you, are you trying other browsers or reverting to the googs?

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• Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tbh… DDG in my opinion gives me way too much porn when it comes to image searching. And sure I could just turn on safe search, but I dont wanna do that and fear it may hide some images that aren’t porn that I’d maybe wanna see

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    that-how? duckduckgo gives you more porn than other search engines? what are you searching for?

    are you searching terms on the edge or something?

    I don’t have safe search on, use it. search function daily and I’ve never had an accidental porn return, or at least so rarely that I can’t remember it happening.

    this is a phenomenon worth looking into.

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    • Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      …

      Shirtless fictional men… TmT

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      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        huh, I’m surprised DDG can’t help you there, I find their image search pretty accurate.

        also, I just checked, there are lots of shirtless fictional men. are you searching for one in particular that nobody has made appropriate fan art for you yet?

        best of luck.

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