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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•edit-211 months agoAnd DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It’s my main search engine for the last few years after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)
minus-squareClay_pidginlinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoyou can -something , but it isn’t full exclusion. It’s generally been good enough for me. I agree the full fat version would be nice.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoSo far I haven’t had any luck with -something “soft” exclusions either.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoYea I bailed after they nerfed exclusions and whatnot but not like the others are slam dunks
And DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It’s my main search engine for the last few years after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)
you can -something , but it isn’t full exclusion. It’s generally been good enough for me. I agree the full fat version would be nice.
So far I haven’t had any luck with -something “soft” exclusions either.
Yea I bailed after they nerfed exclusions and whatnot but not like the others are slam dunks