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As a search provider, DuckDuckGo tries to prevent the "gated community" syndrom: http://dontbubble.us/ http://dontbubble.us/

by dest 11y ago

tim333 11y ago
I tried their test of googling for "guns" as usual, in incognito mode and using another browser. Identical results. Dunno if I'm doing it wrong?
- jstanley 11y ago
  If you're not into guns, it probably won't make any difference.
  - tim333 11y ago
    Ah that might be it. I tried 'singularity' and there was a slight difference.
  - andrey-g 11y ago
    Same results and I'm way too much into guns.
- pferde 11y ago
  It just might mean that they saw through your "It's not me, it's someone else" charade.
raverbashing 11y ago
Yeah, too bad it fails at some searches and falling back to google is needed For controversial stuff, the bubble is definitely a minus. For factual queries, it just makes things easier (yes, when I type 'python' I don't mean the reptile)
- eggie 11y ago
  How does it fail for you? I persisted and find that although the results are different, they are often just different. Once I became used to DDG it's started to seem like Google is the broken one. It did take a while for me to switch, maybe 3 tries before it was working right.
  - raverbashing 11y ago
    - Autocomplete gives "funny" (non-relevant) suggestions - Queries need more grooming to get to relevant results (search for things in Dublin, get results for Ireland/Ohio/California mixed)
  - mcintyre1994 11y ago
    One of my really lazy really common searches is the module codes at my university. It's really nice that Google know which university I mean and always get it right even if I've never searched that code before.
    - J_Darnley 11y ago
      If they're at your university are the results you're looking for not all under the same domain? I would have expected site:university.com to return the right results for you. (Okay, perhaps it's not the every-man solution.)
      - mcintyre1994 11y ago
        Yep, that'd work - it does make the query considerably longer than the 5 character code though. Like I said, very lazy search.
- funkyy 11y ago
  It would be better if they would have visible button next to search input field that would let you to decide if you want to be in bubble or not.

As a search provider, DuckDuckGo tries to prevent the "gated community" syndrom: http://dontbubble.us/ http://dontbubble.us/

by dest 11y ago

As a search provider, DuckDuckGo tries to prevent the "gated community" syndrom: http://dontbubble.us/ http://dontbubble.us/

tim333 11y ago

I tried their test of googling for "guns" as usual, in incognito mode and using another browser. Identical results. Dunno if I'm doing it wrong?

jstanley 11y ago
If you're not into guns, it probably won't make any difference.
- tim333 11y ago
  Ah that might be it. I tried 'singularity' and there was a slight difference.
- andrey-g 11y ago
  Same results and I'm way too much into guns.
pferde 11y ago
It just might mean that they saw through your "It's not me, it's someone else" charade.

raverbashing 11y ago

Yeah, too bad it fails at some searches and falling back to google is needed For controversial stuff, the bubble is definitely a minus. For factual queries, it just makes things easier (yes, when I type 'python' I don't mean the reptile)

eggie 11y ago
How does it fail for you? I persisted and find that although the results are different, they are often just different. Once I became used to DDG it's started to seem like Google is the broken one. It did take a while for me to switch, maybe 3 tries before it was working right.
- raverbashing 11y ago
  - Autocomplete gives "funny" (non-relevant) suggestions - Queries need more grooming to get to relevant results (search for things in Dublin, get results for Ireland/Ohio/California mixed)
- mcintyre1994 11y ago
  One of my really lazy really common searches is the module codes at my university. It's really nice that Google know which university I mean and always get it right even if I've never searched that code before.
  - J_Darnley 11y ago
    If they're at your university are the results you're looking for not all under the same domain? I would have expected site:university.com to return the right results for you. (Okay, perhaps it's not the every-man solution.)
    - mcintyre1994 11y ago
      Yep, that'd work - it does make the query considerably longer than the 5 character code though. Like I said, very lazy search.
funkyy 11y ago
It would be better if they would have visible button next to search input field that would let you to decide if you want to be in bubble or not.