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I am an almost daily user of mariadb. However, when i google anything mariadb query wise i instead type mysql. As the two dialects are nearly identical but there is more documentation available for the mysql search keyword on google.

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There's an interesting push-and-pull here. Keep the existing dialect to make it easy to switch, or add differentiating features that may introduce dialect incompatibility. An issue as old as time for SQL DBs.

Microsoft's infamous embrace and extend strategy.

Word Perfect works with Word, but Word doesn't work with Word Perfect.

Word Perfect doesn't have anyone to blame but themselves,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163741

Same here. Only time I search for mariadb is when it's mariadb specific configuration.

You should use bing or duckduckgo. I've been hearing lately on HN that they are many orders better than Google.

I have found the opposite to be the case.

definitely not duckduckgo. bing has been on par, with technical searches but lacking otherwise

Keep in mind this is changing over time. Search engines do not stand still, I keep bouncing between Google and DDG, the former has been steadily decreasing in quality and the later increasing to the point that I now use DDG first.

I'm not necessarily saying your opinion at this moment in time will change, only that you should re-evaluate it occasionally.

Why not DDG? I switched from Google to DDG a few years ago, and have been satisfactorily using it since.

Many orders? Come on. I have had better results on one or the other and flip between them but not “orders of magnitude” different.

At searching? I can't comment on bing but duckduckgo is different, not necessarily better. In fact for vague matches and context sensitive terms it's quite a bit worse than google.

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