Hacker News Reader

Comment by korr | Hacker News Reader

DuckDuckGo is now a hundred times better than Google for those exact & specific queries. I was looking for some info on my truck engine, and Google sent me to sales pages for completely unrelated parts (and sometimes, entirely unrelated cars!). DDG sent me to deep in an old forum thread, where someone had posted a diagram of exactly what I was looking for.

View on HN

Every time I see a link comparing search engines, I try them with hope, but always go back to Google. My last search confirms this :

* Google https://www.google.com/search?q=insertObject+atIndex+zero+bu... * http://www.bing.com/search?q=insertObject+atIndex+zero+bug&#... * http://duckduckgo.com/?q=insertObject+atIndex+zero+bug

So, five results at the top from StackOverflow... Why not just skip the search engine middle man and go straight to StackOverflow?

Proper search engines are better at finding content than a site's own search feature.

I usually type in my browser address bar, which searches to Google directly. I tried my query on Stack Overflow... Google still gets a better SO question than SO itself : http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=insertObject+atIndex+zero+...

Because the goal is to have something that finds any particular information I want, not go to every site and hope it may show up in a site search?

Because you still don't know if StackOverflow will have the result you're looking for

I've seen this in shopping results -- I'm probably going to buy from Amazon, but I like to see the top N competitors' results along side the Amazon results, so that I can easily confirm that no one is more than a buck or two cheaper than Amazon and can then feel good about my purchase.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com