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Kali

(56,493 posts) Fri Sep 26, 2025, 11:38 PM Sep 26

just had a strange result while doing a basic search

searched for the subject line of the post I just was on a jury for and it went to a blank duck duck go page. tried multiple times, closed the page I was trying to go from and tried again from the main page, same result. (and that is not my default search engine)

it did work using advanced search. that often does NOT work using just a subject line so that was also different. it also gave a whole bunch more posts that seemed recent but very random, however the one in question was first on the list.

LOL just a FYI...

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just had a strange result while doing a basic search (Original Post) Kali Sep 26 OP

WHOA! Simple search used to be only Google. I got the Duck. usonian Sep 27 #1

Thank you for sharing. That way we can pick out a trend and a possible attack. applegrove Sep 27 #2

Same, something changed with the simple search IronLionZion Friday #3

usonian

(21,242 posts)

1. WHOA! Simple search used to be only Google. I got the Duck.

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:59 AM

Sep 27

Admins must have changed it. DDG does not keep "who ( whose IP address) searched for what" more than a day. 👍 Google never forgets and (almost) never fails to sell or give the info out. 👎

I did an image search outside of DU in the same term and got images from two of my posts on the first page of DDG results. DU seems to rank high in search engines.

applegrove

(128,609 posts)

2. Thank you for sharing. That way we can pick out a trend and a possible attack.

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 01:00 AM

Sep 27

I checked. Nobody else has been through what you have. So hopefully DU is okay.

IronLionZion

(50,047 posts)

3. Same, something changed with the simple search

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:41 AM

Friday

until they fix it, you can try advanced search. That has fields to choose the thread title and which forum to search and the date. That still looks like it's working as normal.

The duck AI is not working for me. I liked google's search better, but really I just want to search only in DU, not outside.

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