<story><title>DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results</title><url>https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-help-pages/commit/d35d03e532c7618bcdd2be10ea67e9e1f021dd96</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>I’ve also noticed that “”’s stopped working as expected there recently.&lt;p&gt;Sample query:  “lowes pet bedding”.  The quotation marks do something; they remove some results from tractor supply and home depot.  However, many results don’t contain the word “lowes” or “bedding”.  For example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;animalcare.lacounty.gov&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;animalcare.lacounty.gov&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, none contain the exact phrase.  Google does the expected thing (return one result).  Annoyingly, the last time I checked, the situation was reversed, and Google search is now useless for other reasons.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thirty seven&lt;/i&gt; spam results surround the one organic google search result for the query.  For the love of all that is good and proper, &lt;i&gt;thirty seven&lt;/i&gt;?!?  Who thought that was a good number?&lt;p&gt;That result page would make 90’s era pay-for-placement search engines blush!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I tried&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    graphics card -&amp;quot;nvidia&amp;quot;
    graphics card -&amp;quot;radeon&amp;quot;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
on DuckDuckGo, Google, and Bing. Google is currently the only one which appeared to exclude the requested term. Bing and DuckDuckGo not only didn&amp;#x27;t exclude it, they highlighted it in results.</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results</title><url>https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-help-pages/commit/d35d03e532c7618bcdd2be10ea67e9e1f021dd96</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>I’ve also noticed that “”’s stopped working as expected there recently.&lt;p&gt;Sample query:  “lowes pet bedding”.  The quotation marks do something; they remove some results from tractor supply and home depot.  However, many results don’t contain the word “lowes” or “bedding”.  For example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;animalcare.lacounty.gov&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;animalcare.lacounty.gov&amp;#x2F;licensing&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, none contain the exact phrase.  Google does the expected thing (return one result).  Annoyingly, the last time I checked, the situation was reversed, and Google search is now useless for other reasons.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thirty seven&lt;/i&gt; spam results surround the one organic google search result for the query.  For the love of all that is good and proper, &lt;i&gt;thirty seven&lt;/i&gt;?!?  Who thought that was a good number?&lt;p&gt;That result page would make 90’s era pay-for-placement search engines blush!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Svip</author><text>The quotation marks work for me:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;amp;q=%22lowes+pet+bedding%22&amp;amp;atb=v101-1&amp;amp;ia=web&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;amp;q=%22lowes+pet+bedding%22&amp;amp;atb...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I notice in your HN post, you&amp;#x27;re using fancy quotation marks; I assume you&amp;#x27;re not using the same while searching DDG.</text></comment>