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I find that duckduckgo is more easily tricked by SEO compared to google when it comes to long searches. Other than that I use it exclusively. After a few months

I find that duckduckgo is more easily tricked by SEO compared to google when it comes to long searches. Other than that I use it exclusively. After a few months of use I've gotten to a point that I subconsciously know which searches will need a g! before I even search them( I've confirmed this multiple times as well).

freediver 8y ago
Can you give a few examples of those?
- HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
  The last one I can find from my history is this: I was looking for a company developing intraocular lenses that are better than a healthy human one but I couldn't remember the company's name. My search was artificial lenses better than human Google gave me the company name on it's 3rd result description but duckduckgo gave me irrelevant stuff all the way down. That was yesterday. Today duckduckgo gives me the company name on the description of the second result. So it's pretty volatile I guess.
bitL 8y ago
I've noticed recently that there are already sites trying to game DDG and their results show up among first for some obscure searches, but nowhere else. I guess that's price for popularity.
- metildaa 8y ago
  Its a sign that DDG's search traffic has value, which is a great change from just a few years ago. I tried to use DuckDuckGo, but even still I feel its results are not up to par with Google, despite Google's results sliding in quality year after year. Qwant has been a decent supplement, the results for general queries are good and on the more specific ones (part numbers, key terms from papers and articles) its equal to or better than Yahoo/Bing. On specific queries, Google has really dropped the ball. Part numbers get ignored or rewritten, and results are just plain missing (despite other search engines having those key results).
Shorel 8y ago
You could write a very helpful blog post about this.
- HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
  You think? Maybe I should look into how to make a blog since it has been in my mind for a long time but I'm not into the IT industry in any extend so I don't know how to do it. I'll keep tabs on my searches for a few days to see what I actually search with google or duckduckgo.

freediver 8y ago

Can you give a few examples of those?

HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
The last one I can find from my history is this: I was looking for a company developing intraocular lenses that are better than a healthy human one but I couldn't remember the company's name. My search was artificial lenses better than human Google gave me the company name on it's 3rd result description but duckduckgo gave me irrelevant stuff all the way down. That was yesterday. Today duckduckgo gives me the company name on the description of the second result. So it's pretty volatile I guess.

bitL 8y ago

I've noticed recently that there are already sites trying to game DDG and their results show up among first for some obscure searches, but nowhere else. I guess that's price for popularity.

metildaa 8y ago
Its a sign that DDG's search traffic has value, which is a great change from just a few years ago. I tried to use DuckDuckGo, but even still I feel its results are not up to par with Google, despite Google's results sliding in quality year after year. Qwant has been a decent supplement, the results for general queries are good and on the more specific ones (part numbers, key terms from papers and articles) its equal to or better than Yahoo/Bing. On specific queries, Google has really dropped the ball. Part numbers get ignored or rewritten, and results are just plain missing (despite other search engines having those key results).

Shorel 8y ago

You could write a very helpful blog post about this.

HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
You think? Maybe I should look into how to make a blog since it has been in my mind for a long time but I'm not into the IT industry in any extend so I don't know how to do it. I'll keep tabs on my searches for a few days to see what I actually search with google or duckduckgo.