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How is DDG meant to detect that there are 'missing' bits of information from the returned results, and then 'insert' the missing stuff? Do we really expect a se
by vacri 10y ago
How is DDG meant to detect that there are 'missing' bits of information from the returned results, and then 'insert' the missing stuff? Do we really expect a secondary search engine to hit all the returned search result websites and grep them for the terms, as Stallman suggested? How long would it take people to abandon DDG if they implemented that, given that it would make search intolerably long?
- cynix 10y agoThis was explained in the article. If some results for keywords "A B C D" do not exist in the results for keywords "A B C", then you know these results have been censored.
- tagawa 10y agoThat doesn't seem like a practical solution. One keyword can change the expected search results dramatically, for example: "red ford mustang" and "red ford mustang toy", "wall street 2015" and "wall street 2015 protest", "photos of jam" and "photos of jam jars", etc. In some cases there may be overlap but a lack of it doesn't necessarily indicate censorship.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoWeb search isn't that simple. The search engine does more sophisticated work than that. For example, if no one ever clicks on abcd results, it wont show them when you search for abc.