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There's an unusual amount of pro-DDG articles on Hacker News, half of them are PR fluff, and I don't understand why they keep getting upvoted.
by Theizestooke 8y ago
There's an unusual amount of pro-DDG articles on Hacker News, half of them are PR fluff, and I don't understand why they keep getting upvoted.
- walkingolof 8y agoPeople like underdogs ?
- macintux 8y agoAnd privacy.
- LUmBULtERA 8y agoUnderducks, in this case.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 8y agoAnd all the pro-Google articles are what?
- yzb 8y agoThey are nothing because they don't exist. When was the last time you saw a pro-Google/Alphabet article?
- zozbot123 8y agoBecause Google Search sucks these days. (To be fair, this is not by any fault of Google themselves. Rather, like any monoculture, Google Search is especially vulnerable to external attacks, such as from SEO's trying to game the system.) If anything, DDG today is a lot closer to the quality Google Search itself used to provide back in the 2000s, before it was SEO-gamed to death.
- averagehuman 8y agoI mostly agree with you about Google search results, however I think the decreasing quality is more due to political influence and corruption, rather than SEO-games.