[jxramos]

I'm in the same boat, I feel like my search-fu is being thwarted with the ever growing list of products that coopt existing words rather than coining new terms. We're in this ever expanding word overloading mode and I think the commercial and marketing spaces are now dominating search to drown out the useful hits that would previously rise to the top.

[flyinghamster]

More and more, our search-fu is being actively thwarted. Tools to tailor our search have been steadily taken away: exclusion/inclusion operators, verbatim search ignored, and on and on.

[autoexec]

> exclusion/inclusion operators, verbatim search ignored, and on and on.

I've been assuming that this was just a bug with DDG and not a deliberate attempt to cripple their search engine. I've seen it with Google results too, but I could buy that Google would break them, since making websites harder to find encourages people to pay for prominently placed ads, but what would DDG's motivation be?

[tourmalinetaco]

Well DDG earns money from ads as well, so presumably the same reason.

[Beached]

I want. a search engine that remembers my preferences, and I can then click an ignore entire domain option, and never see that domain in search results even again. is there such a thing?

[Kbelicius]

Kagi does that but it is a paid service.

[freediver]

Replace “but” with “and it can do it because it is” :)

[jxramos]

I'mma have to look into this thing, there's an ever growing need for this sort of thing as the incentives drift further and further from the end user https://kagi.com/.