I'd be interested in looking into any examples of searches where the results aren't good enough or where it seems to have gotten worse recently.
As far as I know there haven't been any changes over the past few weeks that would have made things worse.
DDG returns 2 results.[1] Google returns 369,000.[2]
Here's another one: "opec" "rebalancing" "peak"
DDG returns 0 results.[3] Google returns 319,000.[4]
There have been many, many others. I can email you them as I run in to them, if you want. Just let me know what email address to use.
Also, just to clarify, I noticed the change maybe 3 or 4 months (not weeks) ago.
[1] - https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q="helium"%20"futures"&kd=-1
[2] - https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22helium%22%20%...
[3] - https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q="opec"%20"rebalancing"%20"pea...
[4] - https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22opec%22%20%22...
brian@duckduckgo.com
What happened is we frequently get hit by bots trying to scrape the links from our /lite and /html sites and we have to react by creating rules to try to block them. This particular rule, was over-aggressive. Our ops team is going to discuss internally how to prevent something like this from happening again.
Thanks!
I live in the UK and with our internet laws here becoming more and more strict over the last few (and coming) years, I wanted an alternative to Google or Bing who both actively cooperate with the governments existing proclivity to censor things like Porn.
Bing's video search for pornography is absolutely fantastic, it's legitimately the one thing I use Bing for.