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Re: More effective searching

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On 6/30/25 6:42 AM, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity
>>> rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly
>>> Boolean search? TIA
>>
>> "You" "can" "try" "putting" "double" "quotes" "around" "every" "word"
>> AND "word group" OR -use -dashes -to -exclude
>>
>> https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html
>> https://www.lifewire.com/bing-advanced-search-3482817
>>
>> ... might also be useful (DDG is based on Bing)
> 
> In the past with DDG '-' excluded and '+' included, but now that is no
> the case.  Rather, to quote from
> 
>    https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax
>   

Thanks for the link. I'll be exploring it.
Also, the headings at https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/ are 
intriguing. Will also explore them.


> the meaning is the following:
> 
>    cats -dogs	Fewer dogs in results
>    cats +dogs	More dogs in results
> 
> Just after this change was made several years ago, I found that in some
> cases, adding
> 
>    '-foo'
> 
> actually lead to more results containing 'foo' than when 'foo' was
> omitted completely, presumably because less 'foo' is potentially still
> more than no 'foo'.  I did complain to DDG at the time and I have the
> impression that the issues has now been fixed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Loris
> 

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