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by harha 2143 days ago
I think it would be useful to be able to explicitly search around knowledge graph entities or site topics, e.g. a programming language, a city, a season, without having that single/specific term.

So a search including all sites related to an entity, say Munich or python along with the terms the user is searching because a page might then not specifically include the entity in its keywords or the text on the site or have a different language or use a synonym.

I’m sure search engines consider this somewhat, but explicitly activating such a feature would be a great improvement for the user.

Stackexchange has this feature with tags (using []), with user curated tags. Would be nice to have in DDG or google.

2 comments

I would just like to create my own groups. As another user said, tagging would probably be gamed by SEO companies, but if people could use their own groupings, that problem wouldn't occur. Their could even be curated lists out there of specific sites that fall within a general category. At the least, I'd like to be able to block sites from ever appearing in my results. I've used add-ons for that which work pretty well, but it should be built-in in my opinion
Businesses don’t game stackexchange.