Comment on Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results
eyepatchcheetah@lemmy.world [bot] 9 months agoThat was my experience a few years ago. I would find myself first searching in DDG then using the g! or SP! search bangs to use Google or startpage. However, I have not needed that in at least a year or two. DDG now pretty much meets all my search needs.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What DDG doesn’t seem to do well is search a term which includes an exact match phrase. What I mean is this.
If I search in DDG for ‘eyepatchcheetah “That was my experience a few years ago.”’ it will give me a bunch of unrelated results with all of those words but not necessarily in that order, but if I put that into Google, this thread would be more likely to be at the top. This is a way I search for things quite often, so it’s kind of annoying to have to go back to Google to do those sorts of searches.
macallik@kbin.social 9 months ago
Same. It completely ignores exact phrase match so you can't drill down with the most important aspects of a query. Ecosia was the same way IIRC, so it might be related to people using Bing data as a 3rd party perhaps
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
It’s such a stupid thing to not work. If you’re looking for a specific webpage or even an error code or something it’s just impossible now.