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duck duck go modifying my search terms (hackertalks.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jet@hackertalks.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Looks like duck duck go, is massaging my search terms to give me broader matches, it's changing my novel search term into a book search term without my consent. And then hilariously it's indicating there's no matches for book, are you sure you want to search by book?

What concerns me, is if they're broadening my search terms, they should tell me they're broadening the search terms outwardly, I shouldn't have to discover it when they fail at the broadening and the other part of the engine tries to be helpful

outer worlds visual novel

Not many results contain book

Search only for outer worlds visual "book"?

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It just works for me, doesn't correct it or anything

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I see it too:

[–] jet@hackertalks.com -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay. Maybe I hit a corner case. But it was definitely trying to change novel into book on my search

[–] kras@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says not many matches for book for me as well.

[–] deleted@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Same here

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It changes only when you disable regional search.

[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's not a corner case, they have been doing it for a long time, and it's stupid.