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Just for comparison I did this search on Google (UK site, logged in with my work account) as well, the first page of 'github' results are listed. It seems their

by grkvlt 9y ago

Just for comparison I did this search on Google (UK site, logged in with my work account) as well, the first page of 'github' results are listed. It seems their are much more relevant and useful than the DDG results... 1. a clearly marked relevant ad at the top, for the circleci github plugin 2. an infobox at the right with details of the company, their web address, a link to their twitter account, and some related search queries 3. (first full-width result) link to github.com and summary text 4. a sub-search box to continue searching only on github.com 5. a short two-column list of six links to github.com sub sections 6. a link to the github twitter account and three square boxes across the page with its most recent tweets 7. the github wikipedia page 8. github youtube channel 9. github app for slack 10. github linkedin profile 11. github facebook page

bigbugbag 9y ago
Wow that's quite a load of useless crap, sensory information overload. For lack of a screenshot I imagine this is not presented in a consistent manner. Apart from this inconsistent and confusing presentation, there is not much difference in actual results: duckgo offers results all with the same consistent appeareance: 1. github's homepage 2. wikipedia page about github 3. github's twitter 4. github desktop homepage 5. github's facebook 6. github's youtube and then a load of github related results, as you can see here: https://i.imgur.com/bpDlNT1.png https://i.imgur.com/bpDlNT1.png
- grkvlt 9y ago
  Actually, it's pretty consistently designed and laid out - that's not something you can fault Google for these days. Here's a screenshot of Google https://i.imgur.com/tiVr0bd.png https://i.imgur.com/tiVr0bd.png to compare with DDG https://i.imgur.com/01Lkf2z.png https://i.imgur.com/01Lkf2z.png (with no ad-blocking on mine) - interestingly, the top adverts are the same, both CircleCI, but I prefer the Google version, which has pricing as well, much more likely to lead to a click. Also, DDG has a second advert, under the infobox on the right, so actually 200% of the advertising that Google serves!

by grkvlt 9y ago

bigbugbag 9y ago

Wow that's quite a load of useless crap, sensory information overload. For lack of a screenshot I imagine this is not presented in a consistent manner. Apart from this inconsistent and confusing presentation, there is not much difference in actual results: duckgo offers results all with the same consistent appeareance: 1. github's homepage 2. wikipedia page about github 3. github's twitter 4. github desktop homepage 5. github's facebook 6. github's youtube and then a load of github related results, as you can see here: https://i.imgur.com/bpDlNT1.png https://i.imgur.com/bpDlNT1.png

grkvlt 9y ago
Actually, it's pretty consistently designed and laid out - that's not something you can fault Google for these days. Here's a screenshot of Google https://i.imgur.com/tiVr0bd.png https://i.imgur.com/tiVr0bd.png to compare with DDG https://i.imgur.com/01Lkf2z.png https://i.imgur.com/01Lkf2z.png (with no ad-blocking on mine) - interestingly, the top adverts are the same, both CircleCI, but I prefer the Google version, which has pricing as well, much more likely to lead to a click. Also, DDG has a second advert, under the infobox on the right, so actually 200% of the advertising that Google serves!