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I think you missed the point. Yes DDG ranks, but it may rank differently. Of course, there is an implicit slam on them here: instead of showing you what you wan
by quinndupont 15y ago
I think you missed the point. Yes DDG ranks, but it may rank differently. Of course, there is an implicit slam on them here: instead of showing you what you want the vast majority of the time, they show you other stuff. This is good on occasion (so you don't live in an echo chamber), but if this was all the time it would mean lower quality search results for simple things.
- yanw 15y agoThey show you other stuff Do you have any proof that this isn't what all search engines actually do?
- thesz 15y agoThat's quite a point. My own standing is that most of the time you need what you have to have to complete task at hand. Then you could go at YouTube and refresh "Recomendations" to your heart content. The other way around is to wreak havoc to important parts of your life.
- rogerbraun 15y agoThis is exactly why I stopped using DDG as my main search engine. My workflow was often like this: - Search for term on DDG - Look at results, find nothing - Try to find better term - Give up and use original term in Google - Find result I tried to use DDG exclusively two time (once 8 months ago, once ~4 months ago), but the result was the same. I don't know how much personalization affects this, but Google just gives me the best results.
- MetallicCloud 15y agoI have had almost the exact same experience. I want to use DDG, but I too regularly had to use Google after I couldn't find the results I was after.