@rosenjcb@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoYou cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymorelemmy.worldimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down113
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minus-square@scutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 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-square@mundane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 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-square@scutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoIt is not. It works fine for google, but not for DDG.
minus-square@mundane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThat is weird. I wonder why we are seeing so different behavior from ddg.
minus-squareQwerty-SpacelinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 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