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> 2) I suspect that the difference in search results may partly be conditioned responses. We are accustomed to what we find through Google, so when DDG presents
by josteink 11y ago
> 2) I suspect that the difference in search results may partly be conditioned responses. We are accustomed to what we find through Google, so when DDG presents something that looks different
It's not just that.
When you search with DDG you may need to structure your search differently than you would do when searching with Google.
People are just so accustomed to using Google-optimized search queries that they don't even consider that they are Google-optimized and thus they don't realize how unreasonable they are when they expect Google-optimized queries to yield equal or better results in non-Google products.
Let me put it the other way: If I use my regular DDG search-terms in Google I get poorer results than I get in DDG, is that Google's fault?
- netcan 11y agoIn a possible unfair but nonetheless relevant way, yes it is their fault. Whether it's the intuitive way to ask a search engine a question or just a way that has become intuitive through using googe, it's how people interact with DDG. It doesn't make a difference in any practical way if that intuition has been formed over time by interacting with Google. If you are inventing a new alternative to spreadsheets, most of your users intuitions will have been informed by excel. You'll need to live/deal with that,
- bsbechtel 11y agoI've been using DDG for almost 2 years, and have never, ever had this issue, unless you consider that when I search for something, I may not find it on the first query, I revise my search query, and search again. This revision process happens with Google searches too, and I'm not convinced I do it any more often, on average with DDG, than I did with Google. I also do lots of technical searches to find programming related information, which other commenters here mentioned was one area DDG was lacking.