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We have actually been continually working on improving our search results. We're working on a new page to detail major updates on a quarterly basis, which should be live in a few weeks.

At the same time, we've been continuously developing our Web Tracking Protections for our browsers and extensions. We also made a page for that here that is already out: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we...

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I can't seem to remove terms from search results any more, and I've tried every syntax I could think of. The reason I tried every syntax I could think of is because I couldn't figure out anywhere on DDG where search syntax is explained (other than !bangs.) I could have sworn there was an easily accessible page in the past that explained that.

I strongly second this. Bring back manual control of search results and allow me to exclude words!

You open the DuckDuckGo website, select "Help" from the sidebar and write "syntax" into the search box: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...

The main problem I have with the syntax is that "-" doesn't remove that term from the search results. In fact I'm not sure what it does.

For example, search "cats" and "cats -adopt". The second result for me in both cases is "Cats for adoption".

That is true, no arguments against that. I merely wanted to point out that it is relatively easy to find the mentioned help page.

Wishlist:

1. Make quoted words and phrases work as intended, please. When I say: elixir "ecto.schema" tutorial, that's exactly what I mean and I want search results to reflect that.

2. Respect the minus sign. Almost every time I use it it's completely ignored.

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