And then went on to ignore both that as well as the verbatim option and serve up stupid results despite our carefully crafted query strings.
I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago and I can repeat it: if they pay my tickets and a fair price I'll be happy to hold my course "how to continue being best by not nerfing your market leading product".
Personally I gave up last year and I'm now on DDG. Not perfect but less annoying.
I've gone over almost completely to DDG as well, for at least the last few years, but have noticed that DDG has been ignoring required terms more often lately. But they're still better than Alphagoog.
DDG has a feedback mechanism (the almost invisible "Send Feedback" thing in the lower right corner), but I'm unsure if anyone there actually sees the feedback and cares enough to do anything about it -- as I said, the problem is getting worse over time.
And while I'm on my soapbox, I'm going to continue complaining about having to use quote pairs instead of + for required terms. That still _really_ grinds my gears.
Sadly, I've been seeing similar behavior from DDG lately. In some cases it's been even worse than Google. I really wish there was a search engine optimized for technical work.
I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago and I can repeat it: if they pay my tickets and a fair price I'll be happy to hold my course "how to continue being best by not nerfing your market leading product".
Personally I gave up last year and I'm now on DDG. Not perfect but less annoying.