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DDG is supplanting labor intensive algorithmic improvements with manually manicured search results. This sentence is a paradox.

• mkramlich 16y ago
  To illustrate what he meant, I'll give an example. Assume someone entered a search, "What are the best dog breeds?". Would it be easier to: 1. write an automated system which could dynamically deduce what the answer to this question is and/or what pages to return in the results, based on dynamically crawling the web, indexing, analying link structure, ranking, filtering, etc. -or- 2. have a human write an answer to this fricking question and enter it into the database as the result for this search hint: pick 2 it doesn't scale up to handle bazillions of different searches, but on a smaller scale and in tactical cases it's far simpler and easier to implement and can produce better results.
• bryanh 16y ago
  Of course by manicuring search results I mean blacklisting domains.