Try it with this search:

an entire block of smash car windows

I’ll have to test Searx, Grasp, & Kagi. Right now I start with DDG and bang out to Google (append !g to my DDG search) at least half the time.

So note to DDG devs: those Google bang searches had results that left me disaPPOINTED!

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    34·
    10 months ago

    I get the same issue all the time lately. Search, click link, go back - clicked link gone, different results shown.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      2·
      10 months ago

      I always use mousewheeldown click nowadays, it opens the link in a new tab.

      Also mwd on the tabs themselves close the tab (without needing to hit the tiny cross).

      Changed the way I browse

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        That’s what I do on the desktop, but on mobile there’s no quick way to open a new tab.

        • Ferk@kbin.social
          0·
          10 months ago

          Would it help turning on the setting to have the links always open in a new tab?
          It’s been a long time since I used ddg, but I believe they have the option in their settings page, most search engines do.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksOP
      5·
      10 months ago

      Thanks for testing. What did you try? Any of the same refreshing + intermixing completely clearing cache/cookies/history?

      My environment: iPhone 14 Pro using Firefox Focus 120.0. Saw the same rearranging behavior in Orion on iOS as well.

      Three users here (besides the hundred upvotes) noticed something similar: https://infosec.pub/comment/4407136

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksOP
        1·
        10 months ago

        Is this to mean you believe DDG was presenting identical results with each refresh/new search, while my browser failed to properly display what was returned?

        Or perhaps something else?

        (I’m not an engineer, just doing my best heh - thanks)

        • Batman@lemmings.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          I did see DDG doing different search but all within the three 1st searches. In the meantime the results on Yandex after refreshing were all the Same … Hope that helps you

  • Karna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    If possible, self-host SearxNG using Docker/Podman to avoid all of these.