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by cromka 23 days ago
It did for me, I can no longer find any GitHub project. Duck duck returns them on first try. Absolutely ridiculous, couldn't believe my eyes when I finally realized that. I get a ton of ads and product placements on first couple pages. What I search for is literally, word for word, name of the repository and it's not ambiguous.
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Thats interesting, because for me, I cant find anything on github, through github search and need to resort to google. Google search is super super terrible for other things tho :/
Possibly, but try this yourself to see how irritating Google can be:

https://www.google.com/search?q=marine+nav+compass+card

vs

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=marine+nav+compass+card

Im curious, what is your query?
Huh? the github page of pretty much anything is always in the top 5 results for me.
https://www.google.com/search?q=marine+nav+compass+card

vs

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=marine+nav+compass+card

It's all products and ads now with Google with anything vague enough that warrants up-selling for them.

And honestly, that's my biggest gripe. Identical search terms on different systems, or even the same system in different physical locations, almost always return different results from one-another. Telling someone to "Google it" stopped being a reliable way to share information.