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You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore (self.technology)
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[–] QwertySpace 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Same here. DDG is so much better. And I love that I can do !mcwiki diamond to search the minecraft wiki for "diamonds"

I ended up switching because Google changed their image search design that was just so much more difficult to browse

[–] scutiger 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My problem with ddg is that I can't refine my search by excluding keywords, only by adding more. For example, it's frustrating if I'm looking to buy a product locally and half the page is Amazon results.

[–] mundane 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If I add -amazon to the query on ddg I don't get any Amazon results. Is this not the case for you?

[–] scutiger 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is not. It works fine for google, but not for DDG.

[–] mundane 1 points 2 years ago

That is weird. I wonder why we are seeing so different behavior from ddg.