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whoever post this didn't read the last tweet in the thread, which was the point of the whole thing. "The reality is that Duck Duck Go probably isn’t personalizi

whoever post this didn't read the last tweet in the thread, which was the point of the whole thing. "The reality is that Duck Duck Go probably isn’t personalizing. Instead, it’s having differences in results for the exact reason we explained Google might have slight differences -- the dynamic and distributed nature of search:"

panarky 8y ago
Duck Duck Go did a study using incognito mode to accuse Google of tracking users even when they're not logged in. If you use DDG's same methodology on DDG itself, then it appears that DDG is also tracking and personalizing. Duck Duck Go says it does no tracking of users. If that’s true, then you would expect normal and private browsing to provide exactly the same results. But if you get differences, by the report’s logic, that might suggest that Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing results. This either falsifies Duck Duck Go's accusations of Google, or it shows that Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing. Probably the former.
- kiriakasis 8y ago
  A good part of their claim against google was that some results were unique and not local. But their definition of local was based on "local domains" which would exclude content on national sites with place specific news. I do believe that google is too extreme in tracking and in bubbling people, but their methodology was pretty flawed.
- Carpetsmoker 8y ago
  > This either falsifies Duck Duck Go's accusations of Google, or it shows that Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing. I think that is a false dichotomy; it's entirely possible that the distributed search is just part of the reason that Google's search results are different, and that DDG's accusations of filtering are also true. I don't know if this is actually the case (I didn't look in to the matter very deeply), just saying that it's possible.
  - _Schizotypy 8y ago
    I think the results still throw their methodology into question, it does not give us a clear answer one way or the other on either point

panarky 8y ago

Duck Duck Go did a study using incognito mode to accuse Google of tracking users even when they're not logged in. If you use DDG's same methodology on DDG itself, then it appears that DDG is also tracking and personalizing. Duck Duck Go says it does no tracking of users. If that’s true, then you would expect normal and private browsing to provide exactly the same results. But if you get differences, by the report’s logic, that might suggest that Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing results. This either falsifies Duck Duck Go's accusations of Google, or it shows that Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing. Probably the former.

kiriakasis 8y ago
A good part of their claim against google was that some results were unique and not local. But their definition of local was based on "local domains" which would exclude content on national sites with place specific news. I do believe that google is too extreme in tracking and in bubbling people, but their methodology was pretty flawed.
Carpetsmoker 8y ago
> This either falsifies Duck Duck Go's accusations of Google, or it shows that Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing. I think that is a false dichotomy; it's entirely possible that the distributed search is just part of the reason that Google's search results are different, and that DDG's accusations of filtering are also true. I don't know if this is actually the case (I didn't look in to the matter very deeply), just saying that it's possible.
- _Schizotypy 8y ago
  I think the results still throw their methodology into question, it does not give us a clear answer one way or the other on either point