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joeblau ◴[14 Jun 13 04:09 UTC] No.5878236[source]▶

I love DDG and I used it for 6 months but the problem I had is that when I was looking for things related to coding or Linux--it fell short. I would type in an error from Objective-c, Node.js, Java, JavaScript or Scala and nothing helpful would return. This forced me to return to Google which I ended up doing so often that I switched my default search engine back :(.

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1. 3rd3 ◴[14 Jun 13 07:28 UTC] No.5878722[source]▶

>>5878236 #

We could create a search machine decision plugin for Firefox that forwards tricky queries to Google. Maybe a simple rule like

  .*[\d|\.|\"|\,|\(].*|.{42,}

is already sufficient.

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