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Likewise, while I'm sure a better search engine could exist, what DDG etc. are doing doesn't differentiate enough for me to forcefully change my own habits. I'v
by citricsquid 16y ago
Likewise, while I'm sure a better search engine could exist, what DDG etc. are doing doesn't differentiate enough for me to forcefully change my own habits. I've just been through my google web history and it seems I make around 50 (edit: seems I average around 50 a day for February http://i.imgur.com/u3E6k.jpg http://i.imgur.com/u3E6k.jpg) searches via Google per day on a wide variety of topics, very few do I ever need anything other than the first or second returned result.
I wonder if anyone would be willing to build some sort of website where we can analyse our search habits and "discover" which search engine is best for us. Maybe we would replace our search engine with a new one, and that would aggregate results from multiple locations and we'd pick the most relevant to us and it would rank from there? I guess it would need to be more complex than that to produce anything meaningful, but I would love to see such a project. Alternatively something that we provide our historic searches to and it compares what we did select and where it ranks on each search engine, that could be interesting too -- I'm willing to provide all my own searches if anyone did want to do this.
Maybe a "new" search engine like DDG could pioneer this, build something that allows us to discover which search engine works for us... if these "new" search engines are so great, it should surely prove that we would get better results from them.
(I said "new" because they're not all new time wise, but they're small and relatively unknown)