Ask HN: Does DDG no longer honor "site:" prefix?

19•everybodyknows•2w ago

On iPad, .com sites show up, for my site:.ca.gov search. On Firefox, DDG wants to invoke a "System Handler"

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n1xis10t•2w ago

It works for me from iOS, I only see sites that end with .ca.gov.

sogen•2w ago

works for me.

Switched back to Google this year because DDG started to be less accurate overall, how's your experience

Lightkey•2w ago

Like DDG is a proxy for Bing, so is Startpage a proxy for Google, if you haven ，t tried that.

speedgoose•2w ago

I noticed a lot more AI crap in Bing with a Duck. It’s still my default for simple searches but I now use ChatGPT or Google for more advanced searches.

ThePowerOfFuet•2w ago

You should try Kagi.

robhlam•2w ago

For your firefox issue, does your search string start with “site:”? I’ve had issues with “site:” at the start of search strings apparently being interpreted as a url protocol. Prefixing searches with “and “ seemed to help.

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