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I do this at DuckDuckGo, that is crawl, identify and delist over 60M domains. I think it works pretty well and is certainly a value add, but it is not immediat
by epi0Bauqu 16y ago
I do this at DuckDuckGo, that is crawl, identify and delist over 60M domains. I think it works pretty well and is certainly a value add, but it is not immediately obvious to new or even many old users.
- thaumaturgy 16y agoJust a heads-up for you, and I'm sure you get this all the time, but I'm a new DDG fan. The first time I tried it some months back, it was eh-OK, but not compelling enough to pull me away from Google. In the meantime though, I've gotten more and more frustrated with Google's results -- due in part to link-spamming sites -- that DDG has become a lot more compelling. It's my default search provider now. One question though: I commented to a good old friend of mine that search was starting to feel like the old AltaVista days again. I spent a lot of time trying to find a site that I had seen just a couple of weeks previously, and no amount of Google-fu (or Duck-fu) could locate it. I kept getting completely generic results that weren't helpful at all. I finally found it by remembering where I had seen the link, and using a custom search feature on that site in particular. So ... is there a way for a search engine to rank pages by "freshness"? i.e., some combination of recently-updated and recently-mentioned? Anyway, thanks for DDG.