Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo search changed something?

4 points by ycombinete 3y ago ↗ HN

For years I've been using DDG and very rarely had to turn to Google for a better search result. Lately I'm having to !g to Google on many searches. And using "search_string" for exact matches seems to fail completely...

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not_your_vase 3y ago ↗

I suspect this bug could be still related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254

There is a comment from the CEO with some clarifications (user yegg)

bilegeek 3y ago ↗

For the quotes bit: I found a source[1] saying to append a + to the beginning of the quotes for verbatim mode.

Example: +"stanford waits"

Aside from that, I can't offer any answers; only commiseration.

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduck...

frfsfgxffd 3y ago ↗

yeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-)

it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.