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Odd DuckDuckGo Search Results

12 points by jbillmann 13y ago

eksith 13y ago
A few sporadic, way out there, results and the rest are stats pages. Which is to be expected in the wake of people switching (and mentioning) that they're now using DDG as well as sites putting up links to referrers. I wonder if anyone who works there can chime in.
SwaroopH 13y ago
I am seeing this happen with regular searches as well, not always but a few times randomly.
- cyphax 13y ago
  I'm seeing this more and more since the start of this week. Actually this search engine is now almost unusable, because when this happens, almost all of the results are completely unrelated, or otherwise unreadable, being filled with HTML entities. Only some results are vaguely related but still not what I'm searching for. Damnit, I switched away from Google for a good reason, I'm not willing to give that up, but DDG has to be at least usable or it's pointless as it's a search engine. It must be able to search.
  - kidfortoday 13y ago
    I've made the switch to Blekko for the time being.
    - cyphax 13y ago
      Thank you for the tip, I'll look into it. I also hope DDG will be fixed because right now, I'm having a hard time finding anything with it. :(
kidfortoday 13y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how%20a%20sailboat%20works https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how%20a%20sailboat%20works
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cahitonur 13y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+capital+city+of+california https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+capital+city+of+califo... I made DuckDuckGo as my default search engine two weeks ago and in the end I realized that most of the time the results doesn't satisfy me and I make the search again with !g prefix. DDG is still my default search engine and will stay as default until I get tired of this. I hope they are working on better results and I hope they will achieve this soon or I hope I can find a better search engine except commercial ones.
- bpicolo 13y ago
  Both give me the wikipedia result for sacramento first.
jimmytidey 13y ago
Happening to me regularly this morning: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=john%20b%20up%20all%20night&kd=-1 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=john%20b%20up%20all%20night&kd=-1 Common theme in the results is the word "all", but it's not the same as a search for the word "all" (obviously). Pages are all rubbish. Weight of traffic?

12 points by jbillmann 13y ago

A few sporadic, way out there, results and the rest are stats pages. Which is to be expected in the wake of people switching (and mentioning) that they're now using DDG as well as sites putting up links to referrers. I wonder if anyone who works there can chime in.

SwaroopH 13y ago

I am seeing this happen with regular searches as well, not always but a few times randomly.

cyphax 13y ago
I'm seeing this more and more since the start of this week. Actually this search engine is now almost unusable, because when this happens, almost all of the results are completely unrelated, or otherwise unreadable, being filled with HTML entities. Only some results are vaguely related but still not what I'm searching for. Damnit, I switched away from Google for a good reason, I'm not willing to give that up, but DDG has to be at least usable or it's pointless as it's a search engine. It must be able to search.
- kidfortoday 13y ago
  I've made the switch to Blekko for the time being.
  - cyphax 13y ago
    Thank you for the tip, I'll look into it. I also hope DDG will be fixed because right now, I'm having a hard time finding anything with it. :(

kidfortoday 13y ago

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how%20a%20sailboat%20works https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how%20a%20sailboat%20works

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cahitonur 13y ago

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+capital+city+of+california https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+capital+city+of+califo... I made DuckDuckGo as my default search engine two weeks ago and in the end I realized that most of the time the results doesn't satisfy me and I make the search again with !g prefix. DDG is still my default search engine and will stay as default until I get tired of this. I hope they are working on better results and I hope they will achieve this soon or I hope I can find a better search engine except commercial ones.

bpicolo 13y ago
Both give me the wikipedia result for sacramento first.

jimmytidey 13y ago

Happening to me regularly this morning: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=john%20b%20up%20all%20night&kd=-1 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=john%20b%20up%20all%20night&kd=-1 Common theme in the results is the word "all", but it's not the same as a search for the word "all" (obviously). Pages are all rubbish. Weight of traffic?