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duck duck go modifying my search terms (hackertalks.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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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[–] SameOldInternet@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Search the same term on multiple search engines and got consistent results. I think what you're looking at is more of a suggested search term than them actually changing your search.