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I sometimes wonder if that 5% is something DDG and others can realistically solve. Perhaps the issue has less to do with engineering and more to do with Google

by tjpnz 5y ago

I sometimes wonder if that 5% is something DDG and others can realistically solve. Perhaps the issue has less to do with engineering and more to do with Google being the dominant player over the previous 20-years (give or take). That's an awfully long time for one company to effectively own a product category and build expectations among users about how it should work. FWIW I do get good results from DDG (sometimes better than Google) but that does require me to be a bit more thoughtful with my queries.

dannyw 5y ago
While I think there's merits to what you are saying, also keep in mind that Google SERPs have dramatically changed over the past few years. It's very much a different search engine to Google of the 2010s. The most visible examples are that Google is editorialising specific results, and specifically boosting what it considers "credible sources". It also means wilfully not giving you what you want to search for. Try to search for "8kun" on Google, and you won't find a single link to 8kun. Try to search for "8kun" on Bing, and the #1 result is 8kun.top.