The response, a day late (apologies), we thought it best here to address the feature requests directly; thanks for the examples though, frequently we get requests in that don’t have this context and, although any feedback is appreciated, feedback with examples is way more useful.
Prefacing this with something that you already know, DDG is pulling their web results from Bing, who have more compute power than us to generate the snippets, which can be an intensive task. Because of that, we’ve probably not gone through thoroughly enough the examples that you’ve used.
On:
- Search for an exact match.
- Display my search terms in the snippet.
The search you’re doing here is matching exactly, but the exact match is not displaying in the snippet in bold as with DDG. That is definitely something that we can see as causing problems, but if you navigate to the pages linked you should be able to find that exact text on all of them; in fact, we have a short message that pops up in order to inform people that they have reached the end of the list of exact matches which you can see here at the top:
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=%22no+exact+phrase+match+found%22
There were no exact matches for “no exact phrase match found”
or here in roughly the middle of the page:
This being said, the lack of that bolded text-in snippet is definitely confusing and it’s something we will look into.
On the subdomains and paths:
Subdomains do work, i.e:
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=mojeek+site%3Ablog.mojeek.com&rbb=0
will just produce results under blog. whereas:
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=mojeek+site%3Amojeek.com&rbb=0
will product results from mojeek.com and blog.mojeek.com and any other subdomains. Paths is a bit more difficult and not something that we’re currently able to offer; implementation would not be straightforward, but that is not to say it can never happen.
On consider combining site: and inurl: for simplicity and specificity:
This is possible, but due to the way that Mojeek is set up it wouldn’t work perfectly. We can look into this when we have time to see if it is something we could roll out in the future.
As with up top, this level of detailed feedback is extremely useful and so thanks once again.