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From playing around with DuckIt, I agree, there's more information out there than I'd imagined -- it's just strangled by a thick forest of spam, which you have
by dkimball 17y ago
From playing around with DuckIt, I agree, there's more information out there than I'd imagined -- it's just strangled by a thick forest of spam, which you have devised a superb method of clearing.
My comment on the accuracy of zero-click info was inspired by an "acid-test" test search that turned up some zero-click information that was excellent, but some that was howlingly wrong. "Iberians" produces _splendid_ zero-click info, including a thumbnail of the Lady of Elche; "Y-haplogroup R1b" and "mtDNA haplogroup H" also worked very well; but "Iberian race" turned up zero-click info that's been refuted completely by genetic genealogy and was pseudoscience even before then.
Of course, there's an element of "garbage in, garbage out" here. I would hardly condemn a merely _mortal_ search engine for being less than up-to-date on the very young (<30 years) and distinctly arcane fields of forensic anthropology and genetic genealogy -- but Zero-Click Info mode makes it sound like this is _your_ information, not _the Internet's_ information.
Perhaps you could add a disclaimer to the effect that your elite team of ninja ducks has scoured the dark corners of the earth and returned with the best information they could find, but there's still a risk that their findings are a complete load of HealthBase?
(I would also _love_ to see a picture of your elite team of ninja ducks returning from their investigations. But maybe that's just a sign that I'm easily amused -- the kind of person who _still_ finds "All Your Base" to be funny...)