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When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking cou
by krylon 8y ago
When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
- bluntfang 8y agoyour experience is biased because they give you results based on your google profile.
- peeters 8y agoI just tried it in Incognito, corporate VPN going through Virginia. DuckDuckGo was second result.
- unfreezingly 8y agoFor me, DuckDuckGo is second after Duck on Wikipedia (from US).
- amelius 8y agoIf it's really a trap like parent suggests, then Google will just change that behavior later on, right?
- kowdermeister 8y agoIt was sarcastic, the audience of DDG does not need a search engine to find a search engine. In case of WoM, it's easier to hint a friend to go to duck.com
- ChrisRR 8y agoIncognito search in the UK here: 1st result: Wikipedia Duck 2nd: Wooden Ducks 3rd: BBC duck recipes 4th: Toilet duck cleaner 5th: BBC iplayer, Sarah and Duck It goes on. The only mention of duckduckgo on the first 5 pages is this recent news
- Retr0spectrum 8y agoSame experience here. I wonder if this is some kind of bug?
- Arnt 8y agoIt's locale sensitivity. Duck doesn't mean very much in Germany, so there's little that competes with duck.com. In Britain duck has many other meanings. If you search for an abbreviation that's commonly used as company name, you may find that Google's top result is the one near you, and that the eponymous company in Petrapavlovsk isn't listed.
- ChrisRR 8y agoI doubt it's a bug. I think we just eat a lot of duck in the UK. Additionally I've never heard of duckduckgo referred to by just duck
- duckit 8y agoWhich search engine? Or, did you just assume the search engine here?
- Retr0spectrum 8y agoStrangely, searching from the UK it doesn't seem to be in my results at all. I'm through to the 4th page, and I've come across an article with the same story as the OP, but still not the actual site... Edit: found it near the end of page 6! Alongside "Duck Donuts" and "London Duck Tours".
- consp 8y agoTo add to the "did it come first list", search from the Netherlands: 1st is EN wikipedia with "Duck" 2nd is DuckDuckGo 3rd and on is several restaurants with "duck" in the name. So it probably is location/language related to some extend.
- krylon 8y agoJust to be sure, I just asked bing.com for "duck". I never, ever, EVER use bing, so unless they get their search results from someone else, they should be relatively unbiased. Once more, duckduckgo.com comes up as the first result. Once more, from _Germany_. "duck" is a German word (imperative, as in "duck and cover"), but it is really rare, so I would not be surprised if the search results were biased in favor of our new fowl overlords. But I don't think it's all filter bubble, either.
- rtkwe 8y agoIn the US for me it's the 4th link after wikipedia, the restaurant results insert, wikitonary, and Merriam-Webster. Not bad honestly.
- taftster 8y agoColorado checking in. Results for "duck" ... a. Top stories [not organic result] 1. Wikipedia b. Maps to "duck" restaurants [not organic] 2. Wiktionary 3. allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/shape/Ducks 4. Merriam Webster 5. Related article from theverge.com 6. duckduckgo.com
- nafizh 8y agoIncognito search from Iowa. Top hit - duckduckgo.com