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How is there anywhere enough information in that query to know its about programming? I guess the difference is I don't expect DDG to know anything about the qu
by ed312 6y ago
How is there anywhere enough information in that query to know its about programming? I guess the difference is I don't expect DDG to know anything about the query (imagine talking to a random librarian vs your coworker). This example helps - I think its down to a matter of expectations and tradeoffs. Maybe fundamentally DDG is a "search engine" and GOOG is a "personal AI research assistant".
- hombre_fatal 6y agoAs I point out in my sibling comment, you can google anonymously to prove that it's not personalized. In fact, you can do this with every google vs ddg query to prove it's not personalization that makes google superior. No need to guess. Also, ddg's first link is programming related, it's just a worthless result (Elm's homepage). You ask how someone/something could know that "elm list" is programming related, but I don't see why you think it's unfeasible for someone/something to come up with confidence levels for the various possibilities. Let's say you were sufficiently omniscient to know about the Elm language, elm trees, the elm email client, Professor Elm from Pokemon, and the tiny town of Elm, Switzerland. What do you think is a better result for the query "elm list"? If you can form an opinion, why couldn't the world's most lucrative machine learning project form a similar one?