On 6/30/25 5:59 AM, Jan Claeys wrote:
On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity
rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly
Boolean search? TIA
"You" "can" "try" "putting" "double" "quotes" "around" "every" "word"
AND "word group"
I had discovered that some time ago finding it more predictable than
attempting to use capitalized AND in it's Boolean sense.
OR -use -dashes -to -exclude
Didn't know that. Thanks.
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html
https://www.lifewire.com/bing-advanced-search-3482817
Interesting links. Will experiment to see how well they match with how
well they match with my goals for using DuckDuckGo.
I rigorously avoid *ANYTHING* Google related whenever physically possible.
... might also be useful (DDG is based on Bing)
