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Many people keep asserting that DuckDuckGo is as useless as Google, but I haven’t had a single issue with it. Could it be a regional thing?
DDG is ok for most searches, but they have definitely hit a plateau. Programming search results are quite poor, for instance.
I’ve started paying for kagi. Their results are just way better at this point.
I don't live in the US and the regional results for my country are worse on DuckDuckGo than on Google.
But still, I noticed Google's quality drastically falling down in recent years.
It is as useless. After all, it's just Bing. But if the results are good enough for you, then why bother finding something else.
Some results come from Bing.
most are. just do a side by side comparison. for most queries it's literally the same results.
Hmm, I did notice a sudden severe drop in quality recently. Perhaps they are A/B testing something.
ddg has been going downhill for awhile now. they changed something significant a couple years back that just made results, especially after the first half-page, absolute shit.
I think it was because they dropped Yandex results.
Ddg cannot filter out results. If you don't want pages containing the term, term you add -term to your search and those results should not be included.
Ddg doesn't do this. I did a brief test of many search engines, and only google and mojeek filtered results correctly.
Edit: yadex seems to have working filtering.
Google doesn't do that properly anymore, either, much like the "literal search" (quotes) - used to work, now it's a crap shoot.
It's not as bad as Google yet, but I find myself getting terrible or no results quite a few times.
Ex: if I'm looking for a niche blog post from example.com, just entering the keywords doesn't return the right result, if anything at all. I have to add "site:example.com" and the right link shows up on top.
It's kinda amusing when this happens, but I keep using ddg anyway because bing and Google had the same issue for the same keywords when I ran into the issue.