> As for DuckDuckGo, I discovered that the plus sign doesn't change the search to an AND, it just weights the results more heavily towards the term with the plus.
It seemed to work pretty good when I tested it the other day, although the results were about the same as not using the plus sign. Today I tried a different set of search terms ("aardvarks +donkeys"), and it puts several results with only one of the terms in between the results with both terms. So yeah, that doesn't work as well as I'd like either.
Google wins hands-down on that search though (without plus signs); it returns a WHOLE bunch of pages with both terms.
I wasn't familiar with StartPage, but looking at it now, they used to be IxQuick, which I still have on my homepage/bookmark list from long ago! :) I never used IxQuick much as it didn't give many good results. But that was a long time ago; I may try it out again.
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Date: 2020-08-08 07:56 am (UTC)From:It seemed to work pretty good when I tested it the other day, although the results were about the same as not using the plus sign.
Today I tried a different set of search terms ("aardvarks +donkeys"), and it puts several results with only one of the terms in between the results with both terms. So yeah, that doesn't work as well as I'd like either.
Google wins hands-down on that search though (without plus signs); it returns a WHOLE bunch of pages with both terms.
I wasn't familiar with StartPage, but looking at it now, they used to be IxQuick, which I still have on my homepage/bookmark list from long ago! :)
I never used IxQuick much as it didn't give many good results. But that was a long time ago; I may try it out again.