My experience too is that DDG is slightly different but just as useless as Google.
Use Kagi (or even marginalia although that might take some getting used to if you didn't use engines before Google.)
Use quoted strings for what you want exact matches for. Terminate quotes before terms you are usure about and maybe even remove them - in particular if it is local variable names, dates, folder paths etc.
Sometimes this work in DDG to but do yourself a favour and test out Kagi.
(No, I'm not paid to write this but I can admit I have been heavily encouraged by Google over the last decade and Ddg over the last three years to write about how painfully broken they are.)
> I think I will be subscribing to kagi for their better code search alone.
Agree, an absolute no brainer for me as an engineer in tbe west at least. Even if Kagi just keep their current quality it saves hours and tons of frustration every month for me.
My fear is either Google will throw a wrench in their gears or they'll start optimizing for the masses just like Google did and I'll be stuck another decade with Fisher Price tools instead of power tools.
My experience too is that DDG is slightly different but just as useless as Google.
Use Kagi (or even marginalia although that might take some getting used to if you didn't use engines before Google.)
Use quoted strings for what you want exact matches for. Terminate quotes before terms you are usure about and maybe even remove them - in particular if it is local variable names, dates, folder paths etc.
Sometimes this work in DDG to but do yourself a favour and test out Kagi.
(No, I'm not paid to write this but I can admit I have been heavily encouraged by Google over the last decade and Ddg over the last three years to write about how painfully broken they are.)