Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoGoogle paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywherewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1557arrow-down15 cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1552arrow-down1external-linkGoogle paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywherewww.theverge.comTimely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square79fedilink cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-squarehagelslagerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-28 months agoAnd DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It’s my main search engine for the last few years after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoyou can -something , but it isn’t full exclusion. It’s generally been good enough for me. I agree the full fat version would be nice.
minus-squarehagelslagerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoSo far I haven’t had any luck with -something “soft” exclusions either.
minus-squarerikonium@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoYea I bailed after they nerfed exclusions and whatnot but not like the others are slam dunks
And DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It’s my main search engine for the last few years after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)
you can -something , but it isn’t full exclusion. It’s generally been good enough for me. I agree the full fat version would be nice.
So far I haven’t had any luck with -something “soft” exclusions either.
Yea I bailed after they nerfed exclusions and whatnot but not like the others are slam dunks