I used this quite frequently but since Google “”““improved””“” it last year (there was a popular HN post complaining about this) it doesn’t work anymore. Search for a domain name with quotation marks for example just recombines the contents of the domain and returns a bunch of unrelated content completely cluttering what I am looking for. Until last year it used to return no search results if there weren’t any exact matches, which is the whole point.
Does someone have a work around for this phenomenal Google decision?
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
There’s definitely a quality trade off. DDG uses bing for search results (which, at one point they were letting bing keep tracking data on you so it’s debatable if they’re much better than google), and bing’s results are definitely inferior to google’s. I don’t really notice a difference unless I’m trying to find hard to find info, but it’s very obvious on searches for things like troubleshooting a problem.