Dear,
Thank you very much for the forum platform and the community.
I recently noticed that searches on DuckDuckGo don't always return the expected result for snbforums.com. I have no clue if this is on your side, but I felt like reporting it.
Search engines allow you to add directives like "site:". At least both Google and DuckDuckGo do (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en , https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/ ).
For instance:
site:snbforums.com media bridge : 7000+ hits on Google, seemingly recent; 0 hits on DuckDuckGo
site:forums.smallnetbuilder.com media bridge : 1000+ hits on Google, seemingly less recent; 0 hits on DuckDuckGo
site:reddit.com asus media bridge : not tested on Google; plenty of hits on DuckDuckGo
I'm not aware that this would be a typical issue of DuckDuckGo. Might be something to do with robots.txt on the site/forum or whatever technique guides the action of crawlers in general or non-Google ones in particular. NB: I don't really expect that the number of hits would match between different search engines. But "non zero" is more desirable.
Best regards
PS:
- I don't think this is the same issue as https://www.snbforums.com/threads/site-removed-from-duckduckgo-results.78170/
- Trying to put the details of domain names and redirections out of the equation, I searched for keywords only
"media bridge service stop_dnsmasq cron dhcp nvram RT-AC68U" (based on some random thread, https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac68u-in-media-bridge-mode-responding-to-dhcp-requests.48259/ ).
Google has snbforums at the top of the results.
DDG doesn't have snbforums on the first page.
I'm generally pleased with DDG results, this is the exception.
- I also use the search of the forum, but e.g. it doesn't like short keywords.
Thank you very much for the forum platform and the community.
I recently noticed that searches on DuckDuckGo don't always return the expected result for snbforums.com. I have no clue if this is on your side, but I felt like reporting it.
Search engines allow you to add directives like "site:". At least both Google and DuckDuckGo do (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en , https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/ ).
For instance:
site:snbforums.com media bridge : 7000+ hits on Google, seemingly recent; 0 hits on DuckDuckGo
site:forums.smallnetbuilder.com media bridge : 1000+ hits on Google, seemingly less recent; 0 hits on DuckDuckGo
site:reddit.com asus media bridge : not tested on Google; plenty of hits on DuckDuckGo
I'm not aware that this would be a typical issue of DuckDuckGo. Might be something to do with robots.txt on the site/forum or whatever technique guides the action of crawlers in general or non-Google ones in particular. NB: I don't really expect that the number of hits would match between different search engines. But "non zero" is more desirable.
Best regards
PS:
- I don't think this is the same issue as https://www.snbforums.com/threads/site-removed-from-duckduckgo-results.78170/
- Trying to put the details of domain names and redirections out of the equation, I searched for keywords only
"media bridge service stop_dnsmasq cron dhcp nvram RT-AC68U" (based on some random thread, https://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac68u-in-media-bridge-mode-responding-to-dhcp-requests.48259/ ).
Google has snbforums at the top of the results.
DDG doesn't have snbforums on the first page.
I'm generally pleased with DDG results, this is the exception.
- I also use the search of the forum, but e.g. it doesn't like short keywords.
