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Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)
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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (9 children)

DuckDuckGo is fine for some things, but if you want to do a search with a specific phrase in quotes, it doesn't recognize it. I hate having to go back to Google for some searches, but sometimes it's just better. I wish it wasn't, but it is.

DuckDuckGo's image search also leaves a lot to be desired.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I tried switching to DDG and then Qwant and sadly they both suck for some searches. For example neither could successfully find anything more specific than the home page on my country's government websites. Perhaps Bing, but, again, it's Microsoft?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    If you need Google search results but don't want to use google try SearXng or Startpage

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You don't need to do the quote thing in DDG. You can literally just search the quote, and maybe the domain it was hosted on. You will find what you're looking for. DDG even has business profile widgets like google search does. I don't even miss google search at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I don't think you understand what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a search phrase that is partially in quotes for an exact match and partially not for an inexact match. Google handles that, DDG does not.

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