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by bdn_ 1063 days ago
Has anyone else experienced DuckDuckGo ignoring the exclusion operator? For example, searching `kiwi -fruit`, with no space between the hyphen and second word, used to bring up results that did not include the word "fruit". This no longer seems to be the case.
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> duckduckgo ... exclusion operator

Removed a few weeks ago.

Somebody posted in these pages the github diff showing the removal of the options.

Someone needs to build a meta search engine…
At least one existed in the dot com era. Forget the name.
metacrawler, IIRC.
searx/searxng?