This switch by Debian to DDG is less of an issue for me than it would have been a few years ago. Google has recently been claiming it will only ever show 1000 results (10 pages of 100). But for many users, myself included, google will only ever show less than 400 results. This is apparently an intentional policy (at least according to the support forums).
For me this is terrible. I can scan through 100 search results pretty quick, going 4 pages deep is something I have always done often. Seeing the reported ~82 million results shrink suddenly to 4 pages and maybe 389 results with ommitted included is extremely disheartening. But at least google scholar still works properly.
For me this is terrible. I can scan through 100 search results pretty quick, going 4 pages deep is something I have always done often. Seeing the reported ~82 million results shrink suddenly to 4 pages and maybe 389 results with ommitted included is extremely disheartening. But at least google scholar still works properly.
When I found out about this I was so pissed I made a crappy little website to more easily complain about it to people. http://googlesearchonlyreturns400results.lol/