Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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    The killer for me has to be that it doesn’t support searching for phrases within websites I need. Latest example: github. I can be on the project page, copy a phrase from the code and search ddg with it in double quotemarks, and get 0 results. Copy - google.com - paste - enter - loads of results.

    Also the search function broke for about a day, a few days ago

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      31 month ago

      That’s a bit surprising, given DDG uses Bing, Bing is Microsoft and Microsoft owns Github.

      Did you try the same search with Bing, or have an example to share?

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      1 month ago

      To be honest with you, I didn’t even know that was a feature. (Unless I’m misunderstanding you.) Sounds cool!

      If I need to search a website, I use either Ctrl+F or the site: search engine operator.

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        21 month ago

        Yes, I’m so glad that operators like site: and before: are supported. Necessary for weeding out a few bad results aha

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          230 days ago

          Yeah, I’m still salty that Google and most other search engines have cut out some of the boolean operators over the last decade or so.