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by ryantgtg 1593 days ago
Most of the time duckduckgo doesn’t even acknowledge quotations. I can’t tell if it’s because there aren’t results for when the query contains quotations or if they simply don’t acknowledge them most of the time. Either way it’s annoying and it makes me go back to google every time.
2 comments

I think you also need to put a + in front, for ddg to pay attention.
Do you have an example query?
These are some I found in my search history, where I then switched to !g. Not sure if all these examples still fail to produce results with the matching string (but they still seem to have issues, upon a quick glance):

"packages not in the aur"

rake "invalid session id"

"pacman -Qm"

arch "The pgAdmin 4 server could not be contacted"

"previous definition of HTML_NAMESPACE was here"

illustrator "print preview" is darker

systemd Loaded: bad-setting "has a bad unit file setting"