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Google court filing reveals new business details of DuckDuckGo and Neeva | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Reading the article, I think the biggest hurdle for adoption of DDG in Europe is simply that the search results in non-english suck in comparison to other search engines. Not only that, but if my language contains characters outside of ASCII, performing a query and then repeating the query with a bang to get better result from another engine results in failure to redirect. Now I have to cut the query, repeat the bang and then paste the query into the other engine manually.

[–] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ddg still has its issues, but it can be useful for avoiding some types of SEO targeting articles

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Sorry, had to clarify. The results suck for non-english content.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think the biggest hurdle for adoption of DDG ~in Europe~ is simply that the search results ~in non-english~ suck in comparison to other search engines named Google.

:(((

Still use it though, just expect to add !g half the time.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Two tildes have to be enclosed around text to get a strike-through styling. ~~like this~~ ~~like this~~

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

~~duh~~ thanks :)

Voyager iOS tricks me, still shows strikeouts with single tildes!

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you upgrade, this should be fixed btw!

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yayyy!

Shows single-tilde enclosures as superscript. That’s expected right?

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yes!

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I'd prefer !sp for mostly Google-accurate Startpage results, or something that redirects to a living SearxNG insurance, please.