rosenjcb@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYou cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymorelemmy.worldimagemessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up1632arrow-down162
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minus-squarescutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-squaremundane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIf I add -amazon to the query on ddg I don’t get any Amazon results. Is this not the case for you?
minus-squarescutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt is not. It works fine for google, but not for DDG.
minus-squaremundane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat is weird. I wonder why we are seeing so different behavior from ddg.
minus-squareQwerty-Space@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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