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I haven't tried this yet but it does seem very on point with my own sleeping problems. My wife falls asleep at the drop of a hat but I spend at least an hour or more trying to fall asleep. I've tried circadian rhythm lighting, blue blockers, eye masks, ear plugs, everything I could think of to no avail.

Hopefully this helps me and if anyone else is having issues hopefully it helps you.


Thanks for the update! I did notice they were flaky and maybe it's my queries that were more flaky than others that it stuck out at me more than when they possibly worked.

Hopefully you can get this resolved as it's become extremely frustrating searching technical pages to weed out unrelated information.


I've never had problems adding operators until recently. I couldn't say when the change happened but I've been successfully using them since I moved to duckgo many years ago. I've been increasingly frustrated with duckgo and finally decided to find out what was going on and found this page.


I went looking for the reason why searches weren't filtering properly. So I'm not sure what's going on but filtering by site only (which seems to be the only option left) doesn't help at all.


It seems duckduckgo removed all the operators like

  -, +, and, intitle, inurl
and others


Seems to have been a while ago.

Was swearing at it only a few days ago due to stupid results it was showing, while completely ignoring the "-" sign.

Search term:

  solar panel array concrete flat -roof -roofs
Notice how the majority of results still include either "roof" or "roofs" in it?

Fucking useless. :( :( :(

Had to switch to Kagi, which at least seems to honour the negative signs.


I'm not keen on paying for search, but this kind of behavior is exactly the marketing Kagi needs to sway me over.


Web search might be the most valuable single tool I use outside of my computer itself, or my vehicle.

If the only good option was paid, I would pay a lot. I think most other people would, too. But they'll keep using worse free options so long as those are passable.


I'm actually tremendously keen on paying for search, since it means (at least in theory and currently in practice) that I don't have to worry about a paid search engine catering to advertisers instead of me.

Like, it'd be nice if everything were free, but sadly everything has a cost, and we can see what the cost of "free" search is and it kinda sucks.


Please tell me this is an accident. How can you find anything when you can't filter out results you don't want?


Wait, so it's not a bug? Is it some new limitation from the bing API they use?!


I noticed similar on Ecosia so this could be shanigans on Microsoft's end.


  dogs -crazy -cute -sounds site:youtube.com
This seems to be working fine. Even though the search filter doesn't include them in the filters list, the results are getting filtered.


i mean, the search works but the first result I get is "Cute Dogs and Adorable Babies", so the something is weird. If change the search to

dogs -babies -crazy -cute -sounds site:youtube.com

Then I no longer get that as the top result but the fifth result mentions babies.


Yes, but its filters were always iffy. It will filter cute but not CUTE and eventually filtered duckduckgo results eventually get repeated or the exclusions get added with a little bit of filtering.


but why?


So that ignorant internet duckers don't know any good. Its for their own benefit. With the rise of ai, you don't need to feed search operators like a caveman, you just use NLP


I noticed the exact same thing myself. I can't remember any of the words outside of the game. Once I'm in the game though they all come back to me. I've been trying to talk with my wife every time I learn a word now to help me cement it in my mind but it's very frustrating.


Not quite sure what's wrong but the FAQ on your site doesn't expand when you click the questions. Debugger says `__webpack_require__` is undefined. (no adblock or scriptblock)


Reminds me of a story about Gene Roddenberry. (of Star Trek fame) Apparently he wrote lyrics to the original series theme song so that he'd get half the royalties every time it was played even though the lyrics weren't used. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, pp 178, 185)


Also Danny Elfman has joked that it turned out financially very important that he sang the words The Simpsons in the theme song.


Bryan Cranston on Malcolm in the Middle[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/yuGjVKOQc98?t=22


I was going to post this exact one if nobody else did. Excellent episode. It certainly was a great show. Very informal and informative.


Found this on their instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS/


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