Has DuckDuckGo search changed something?

Question

For years I've been using DDG and very rarely had to turn to Google for a better search result. Lately I'm having to !g to Google on many searches. And using "search_string" for exact matches seems to fail completely...

bilegeek · Accepted Answer

For the quotes bit: I found a source[1] saying to append a + to the beginning of the quotes for verbatim mode.
Example: +"stanford waits"
Aside from that, I can't offer any answers; only commiseration.
[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduck...

not_your_vase · Answer

I suspect this bug could be still related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254There is a comment from the CEO with some clarifications (user yegg)

frfsfgxffd · Answer

yeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-)it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.

Has DuckDuckGo search changed something?

For years I've been using DDG and very rarely had to turn to Google for a better search result. Lately I'm having to !g to Google on many searches. And using "search_string" for exact matches seems to fail completely...

For the quotes bit: I found a source[1] saying to append a + to the beginning of the quotes for verbatim mode.
Example: +"stanford waits"
Aside from that, I can't offer any answers; only commiseration.
[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduck...

I suspect this bug could be still related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254
There is a comment from the CEO with some clarifications (user yegg)

yeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-)
it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.

Has DuckDuckGo search changed something?

For years I've been using DDG and very rarely had to turn to Google for a better search result. Lately I'm having to !g to Google on many searches. And using "search_string" for exact matches seems to fail completely...

For the quotes bit: I found a source[1] saying to append a + to the beginning of the quotes for verbatim mode.Example: +"stanford waits"Aside from that, I can't offer any answers; only commiseration.[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduck...

I suspect this bug could be still related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254There is a comment from the CEO with some clarifications (user yegg)

yeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-)it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.

For the quotes bit: I found a source[1] saying to append a + to the beginning of the quotes for verbatim mode.
Example: +"stanford waits"
Aside from that, I can't offer any answers; only commiseration.
[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/9vilwn/duckduck...

I suspect this bug could be still related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683254
There is a comment from the CEO with some clarifications (user yegg)

yeah. bing announced a long time ago they dropped support for things like exclusion (-)
it's mostly garbage now for complex queries. still use ddg tho.