Two minutes of DuckDuckGo rearranging & dropping results for the same search; Bing, Startpage, & DDG all unreliable vs. Google :( (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 11 months ago by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Try it with this search:

an entire block of smash car windows

I’ll have to test Searx, Grasp, & Kagi. Right now I start with DDG and bang out to Google (append !g to my DDG search) at least half the time.

So note to DDG devs: those Google bang searches had results that left me disaPPOINTED !

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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

No issue here.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks for testing. What did you try? Any of the same refreshing + intermixing completely clearing cache/cookies/history?

My environment: iPhone 14 Pro using Firefox Focus 120.0. Saw the same rearranging behavior in Orion on iOS as well.

Three users here (besides the hundred upvotes) noticed something similar: https://infosec.pub/comment/4407136

[-] Cyberbatman -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Same... it's probably OP's📱 phone

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Is this to mean you believe DDG was presenting identical results with each refresh/new search, while my browser failed to properly display what was returned?

Or perhaps something else?

(I’m not an engineer, just doing my best heh - thanks)

[-] Cyberbatman 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I did see DDG doing different search but all within the three 1st searches. In the meantime the results on Yandex after refreshing were all the Same ... Hope that helps you

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you!

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