Looks like duck duck go, is massaging my search terms to give me broader matches, it’s changing my novel search term into a book search term without my consent. And then hilariously it’s indicating there’s no matches for book, are you sure you want to search by book?
What concerns me, is if they’re broadening my search terms, they should tell me they’re broadening the search terms outwardly, I shouldn’t have to discover it when they fail at the broadening and the other part of the engine tries to be helpful
Not many results contain book
Search only for outer worlds visual “book”?
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It just works for me, doesn’t correct it or anything
I see it too:
Okay. Maybe I hit a corner case. But it was definitely trying to change novel into book on my search
It says not many matches for book for me as well.
Same here
It changes only when you disable regional search.
It’s not a corner case, they have been doing it for a long time, and it’s stupid.
I’m gonna be honest with you, experience says that DDG isn’t as good as they claim to be, in terms of search quality or privacy. I mean, their search quality is evident, and they’ve sold out user privacy in the past when they made a deal with Microsoft to allow them to track you freely.
You’re right. I like the idea of kagi, but I don’t want to have to login to search
Duck duck go doesn’t block VPNs or tor access, so even if their results are not as great, it’s just more convenient since I don’t have to do captchas
Search the same term on multiple search engines and got consistent results. I think what you’re looking at is more of a suggested search term than them actually changing your search.
This drives me crazy with ddg. When it happens I use searx instead.
Kagi is where it’s at. It’s paid, sure, but the results are actually useful!
