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It's not just how DDG works, but how search works and how difficult the search problem is. This was a complete waste of my time and people voting this up are cl
by drivebycomment 4y ago
It's not just how DDG works, but how search works and how difficult the search problem is. This was a complete waste of my time and people voting this up are clearly equally clueless or haven't even bothered to read it before voting.
A choice quote from the article:
> So, that’s another opportunity for DuckDuckGo, by ranking the results based on the content’s quality and relevance, as Google used to do before. I consider that there are some methods to accomplish this; one could be to rank the content through the community or actually use artificial intelligence to categorize the academic/relevance level.
LOL.
- jeffbee 4y agoYeah but I'm accustomed to the HN ignorance of the form "why do they not simply rank the document I want at the top?" People may underestimate the difficulties of web search and I understand that. But how can they not understand that DDG is just a marketing outlet of Bing? That doesn't take any thought at all.
- drivebycomment 4y agoFair. I guess different "ignorance" ticks off you and me differently. I dismissed that aspect, since I assumed it's possible people are simply interpreting "DDG" as "any search engine that's not Google".
- mrweasel 4y ago> But how can they not understand that DDG is just a marketing outlet of Bing? People on HN knows that Bing powers much of DDG, but how would the average user know that?