DDG is a reskinned Yandex with shortcuts to search particular sites [duckduckgo.com]. If you don't commonly use site: searches on Google, and you can't stand Yandex, you won't like DDG.
Yeah, it's a search aggregator, and not a search engine. I used it before, but stopped, because it uses Bing, which is maed forr pepple whoo cann nott speel. When I make exact and correctly spelled search queries, I get a lot of rubbish back because Bing returns results for "similar" queries.
Example query: iwlyfmbp deflate
Now run this through Google and DDG and see where you get the best results.
I incorrectly thought that when people got zero results on the combined search, they'd try each of the words separately.
iwlyfmbp returns a boatload of WFMB radio station results on DDG, because Bing returns them. Whoever designed the algorithms for Bing was probably doing sabotage, cause you can't get that wrong by accident.
DDG has a way to specify a specific search engine to use, but it does not have a way to exclude one. Like Bing, which is worse than useless because of how it attempts to second-guess i
Not living in either country, both the US and Russia are foreign competitors with a shady track record on business ethics and human rights and politics, so it really doesn't make a difference to me. Both nations have wasted a decade bombing Afghanistan, you're both prosecuting dissidents. I have serious trouble telling you guys apart.
DuckDuckGo sucks (Score:-1, Troll)
In Russia, Yandex searches YOU (Score:5, Informative)
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Yeah, it's a search aggregator, and not a search engine.
I used it before, but stopped, because it uses Bing, which is maed forr pepple whoo cann nott speel. When I make exact and correctly spelled search queries, I get a lot of rubbish back because Bing returns results for "similar" queries.
Example query: iwlyfmbp deflate
Now run this through Google and DDG and see where you get the best results.
Re:In Russia, Yandex searches YOU (Score:5, Informative)
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I incorrectly thought that when people got zero results on the combined search, they'd try each of the words separately.
iwlyfmbp returns a boatload of WFMB radio station results on DDG, because Bing returns them. Whoever designed the algorithms for Bing was probably doing sabotage, cause you can't get that wrong by accident.
DDG has a way to specify a specific search engine to use, but it does not have a way to exclude one. Like Bing, which is worse than useless because of how it attempts to second-guess i
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Yes! I believe in free and fair competition so the obvious step is to let the Russians snoop on me as much as the Americans do.
Re:In Russia, Yandex searches YOU (Score:4, Interesting)
Not living in either country, both the US and Russia are foreign competitors with a shady track record on business ethics and human rights and politics, so it really doesn't make a difference to me. Both nations have wasted a decade bombing Afghanistan, you're both prosecuting dissidents. I have serious trouble telling you guys apart.