Note: From the time since I originally posted this link, DuckDuckGo has clarified the status of search filters, and the article has been revised to reflect that. Thus, I’ve edited the Wayback Machine link to show the revised article. I apologize for any confusion, and I hope this clears things up!
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) English11•1 year ago
Ah yes another day of commercial services on the web getting worse. I didn’t even know that google doesn’t even honor “” anymore. DDG doesn’t accept “” to search for exact terms now as well. Fuck this.
- Camus ( @V4uban@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Time to move to another one I guess
- Chris Remington ( @remington@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
There’s a decent list here: https://itsfoss.com/privacy-search-engines/
- Camus ( @V4uban@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Thank you!
- noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
it’s hard to move away from the bajillions of !bangs, though :/
- токи ( @toki@sopuli.xyz ) English10•1 year ago
But why?
- alyaza [they/she] ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
it would appear they have an explanation for all this on github, although i don’t use DDG so i cannot speak to how useful it is
- jherazob ( @jherazob@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
So, a documentation issue along with ongoing bug fixing and the OP article is just sensationalist BS? Or am I reading this wrong?
Thank you for the link to the GitHub issue! I’ve found that the article I’ve linked has also been updated with mention of the issues with the search filters.
- ThePJN ( @ThePJN@sopuli.xyz ) 6•1 year ago
Hmm. Guess that’s why DDG wasn’t accessible through my SearX the other day. Bah!
- FuckBigTech347 ( @FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml ) 5•1 year ago
This makes 0 sense. They literally removed the features that makes a search engine most useful. Whoever came up with this change has a terminal case of brainworms.