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I try, really hard… but for me its nowhere near 80-90% successful, particularly for anything particularly new -- I find the results tend to be much older. `!g`

I try, really hard… but for me its nowhere near 80-90% successful, particularly for anything particularly new -- I find the results tend to be much older. `!g` has almost become a default reflex.

nickdandakis 8y ago
Same here. You really need to be more explicit with your queries and remember that Duck Duck Go has no concept of who you are as a person. Searching for "babel" in Duck Duck Go and Google yield different results (for the first three results). Google knows I'm a software engineer and that I'm probably looking for "babeljs", Duck Duck Go doesn't. Google's spoiled us.
xkjkls 8y ago
It's much noticeably worse at locality. Trying to find the happy hours times for a bar around the corner? Good luck on DuckDuckGo.
- MrEldritch 8y ago
  ...well, of course it's worse at locality. It doesn't track your location. It fundamentally can't do locality without not being DuckDuckGo.
  - xkjkls 8y ago
    Well, then it is fundamentally less useful then?
  - convolvatron 8y ago
    in theory I could include my location in a search query to get relevant results without having it stored indefinitely, correlated with past locations and other data, and packaged up and sent off to other interested parties. maybe if I could guarantee that one positional sample was completely independent of anything that would allow it to be correlated? seems tough.
  - goliatone 8y ago
    They started offering local results on their searches, I opted out so I don’t know how well it might work. [edit] provided link https://duck.co/help/privacy/anonymous-localized-results https://duck.co/help/privacy/anonymous-localized-results
ldiracdelta 8y ago
Hopefully, providing market share to other providers will eventually fund them enough to close the gap a little bit or even just help them approach the statisfice level for more people.

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I try, really hard… but for me its nowhere near 80-90% successful, particularly for anything particularly new -- I find the results tend to be much older. `!g`

by jeffbax 8y ago

I try, really hard… but for me its nowhere near 80-90% successful, particularly for anything particularly new -- I find the results tend to be much older. `!g` has almost become a default reflex.

nickdandakis 8y ago
Same here. You really need to be more explicit with your queries and remember that Duck Duck Go has no concept of who you are as a person. Searching for "babel" in Duck Duck Go and Google yield different results (for the first three results). Google knows I'm a software engineer and that I'm probably looking for "babeljs", Duck Duck Go doesn't. Google's spoiled us.
xkjkls 8y ago
It's much noticeably worse at locality. Trying to find the happy hours times for a bar around the corner? Good luck on DuckDuckGo.
- MrEldritch 8y ago
  ...well, of course it's worse at locality. It doesn't track your location. It fundamentally can't do locality without not being DuckDuckGo.
  - xkjkls 8y ago
    Well, then it is fundamentally less useful then?
  - convolvatron 8y ago
    in theory I could include my location in a search query to get relevant results without having it stored indefinitely, correlated with past locations and other data, and packaged up and sent off to other interested parties. maybe if I could guarantee that one positional sample was completely independent of anything that would allow it to be correlated? seems tough.
  - goliatone 8y ago
    They started offering local results on their searches, I opted out so I don’t know how well it might work. [edit] provided link https://duck.co/help/privacy/anonymous-localized-results https://duck.co/help/privacy/anonymous-localized-results
ldiracdelta 8y ago
Hopefully, providing market share to other providers will eventually fund them enough to close the gap a little bit or even just help them approach the statisfice level for more people.