rosenjcb to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years agoYou cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymoremessage-squaremessage-square141linkfedilinkarrow-up1646arrow-down166
arrow-up1580arrow-down1message-squareYou cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymorerosenjcb to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square141linkfedilink
minus-squarescutigerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoMy 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.
minus-squaremundanelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoIf I add -amazon to the query on ddg I don’t get any Amazon results. Is this not the case for you?
minus-squarescutigerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoIt is not. It works fine for google, but not for DDG.
minus-squaremundanelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoThat is weird. I wonder why we are seeing so different behavior from ddg.
minus-squareQwerty-SpacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoYou can do that on ddg. See this link: http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax
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.
If I add
-amazonto the query on ddg I don’t get any Amazon results. Is this not the case for you?It is not. It works fine for google, but not for DDG.
That is weird. I wonder why we are seeing so different behavior from ddg.
You can do that on ddg. See this link: http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax