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)