Another useful feature for power users that Google is killing.

They don’t care about us that day they we have a problem and the solution is in a now defunct site. That doesn’t generate revenue. “When People search on Google they need to find what they need on a click on the ads”, the shareholders are saying

  • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    It would be nice if DDG would start showing me the results I searched for, man

    Feel like I’ve been going insane the past month, have to go Google things because DDG just seems to have no clue about simple queries.

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      9 months ago

      That’s been an issue for me as well. DDG is my default search engine, but the majority of the time I have to add the !g as it struggles with context. It’ll find plenty of results matching the words I type in, but not quite understand that how those words are arranged matter.

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      9 months ago

      What I find infuriating is when I click a search result and it’s not what I wanted, so I hit back to try the next one and the search results have changed. And the second set is almost always worse.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah DDG has been getting way worse lately. I find it unusable about 50% of the time now. I think it’s a Bing thing on the back end.