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 !
I get the same issue all the time lately. Search, click link, go back - clicked link gone, different results shown.
I get this but never clicked link gone. Rearranged or added results.
I am not a search engine engineer.
Here are some things it might be though:
It could be that the results you see first are cached on their servers, and expiring from that cache between your searches. however usually when something requested is pulled from a cache, the items lifespan in the cache is usually refreshed so it lives a bit longer.
It could be that certain they are NOT cached at all, and certain sites are rate limiting the DDG crawler hitting them and returning info to you, so DDG takes them out of the results as they cannot confirm the site is alive. I noticed reddit disappeared from the results and we all know about Reddit and their APIs here.
It could also be their ranking algorithm for results is not as deterministic as they want it to be, it could also be that way by design. Page ranking is a closely guarded trade secret, especially at big places like Google. DDG results will never match 1:1 with Google. Personally, I prefer DDGs results to Google.
Excellent analysis. Caching came to mind for me as well. Thank you for the interesting speculation!
I settled on SearXNG
I LOVE searxng!
I will never go back to any basic old search engine again.
I am going to give SearXNG a try myself. It looks promising. I hadn’t heard of it before today, but I am setting up a container for it now.
Are you hosting it yourself?
Did not get to doing that yet, here’s a tutorial if you want to.
I think setting up a docker container would be easier no?
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I am if you have any questions
Are you running this through docker?
If possible, self-host SearxNG using Docker/Podman to avoid all of these.