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Results in Duckduckgo have changed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by zerozaku@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm finding the results are not helpful as they used to be and sometimes way past the topic I'm searching. This is very prevalent when I'm searching for pirate sites. I'm falling back to Searxng whenever this occurs.

Has anyone noticed it too? Has DDG upped their moderation?

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[–] yoz@aussie.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Which search engine is good to find pirate sites and other general websites

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 weeks ago

They don't show up there for obvious reasons. Also sites disappear frequently, or move to new domains. You have to use alternative ways, bookmark megathreads and other collections where some other people frequently update the links, something for start:

On lemmy: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com read the sidebar
https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
On github: https://github.com/Shakil-Shahadat/awesome-piracy
Some good links are here as well: https://fmhy.net/

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The search engine built into qbittorrent is good as well.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I probably wouldn't use it as a main search engine because I don't know how trustworthy it is, but whenever I can't find some obscure piece of media or something I've had amazing results from Yandex