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I've asked Gabriel specifically and he said that they use their own crawler/indexer.

by bradly 14y ago

ck2 14y ago
Their results are nearly identical to Bing in every case I've tried. Let me know if you find a search result that is different.
- ricardobeat 14y ago
  First attempt: http://cl.ly/image/340S0R3b0K0d http://cl.ly/image/340S0R3b0K0d
  - ck2 14y ago
    Those aren't actually website results. Those are links to entries for the single word on other sites, then followed by bing results. How often do you do single word searches in the realworld?
    - ricardobeat 14y ago
      Both are search/website results. "Links to entries on other sites" are exactly that, and DDG's special sauce is presenting third-party results contextually. As for "followed by bing results", there is a single one that is equal to bing. The results that follow are also far from similar (this is exacerbated by Bing insisting on giving me local results regardless of relevance, which DDG purposedly avoids). And yes, I do single word searches very often, but if you're so inclined, here are results for a longer search: http://cl.ly/image/0m1E3I3J0M1U http://cl.ly/image/0m1E3I3J0M1U (DDG shows Hulu, tv.com, CTV, amazon, and doesn't repeat the Wikipedia entry)
  - mbreese 14y ago
    DDG is really only displaying definitions, aside from hacker.org. Given that this is a dictionary "word", I'm not sure how much of this query is really due to indexing and how much is due to identification of it as a singular word. Because there is so much query specific customization with search engines, (context-dependent results), it's hard to identify what results would have been returned from their raw indexes. If you adjust the term to "hacker movie", you get more similar results between DDG and Bing. But, overall, it does seem like DDG is returning more differing results now than in the past.
- lubujackson 14y ago
  They definitely use Bing as their backbone as Gabriel has said somewhere before.

I've asked Gabriel specifically and he said that they use their own crawler/indexer.

by bradly 14y ago

I've asked Gabriel specifically and he said that they use their own crawler/indexer.

ck2 14y ago

Their results are nearly identical to Bing in every case I've tried. Let me know if you find a search result that is different.

ricardobeat 14y ago
First attempt: http://cl.ly/image/340S0R3b0K0d http://cl.ly/image/340S0R3b0K0d
- ck2 14y ago
  Those aren't actually website results. Those are links to entries for the single word on other sites, then followed by bing results. How often do you do single word searches in the realworld?
  - ricardobeat 14y ago
    Both are search/website results. "Links to entries on other sites" are exactly that, and DDG's special sauce is presenting third-party results contextually. As for "followed by bing results", there is a single one that is equal to bing. The results that follow are also far from similar (this is exacerbated by Bing insisting on giving me local results regardless of relevance, which DDG purposedly avoids). And yes, I do single word searches very often, but if you're so inclined, here are results for a longer search: http://cl.ly/image/0m1E3I3J0M1U http://cl.ly/image/0m1E3I3J0M1U (DDG shows Hulu, tv.com, CTV, amazon, and doesn't repeat the Wikipedia entry)
- mbreese 14y ago
  DDG is really only displaying definitions, aside from hacker.org. Given that this is a dictionary "word", I'm not sure how much of this query is really due to indexing and how much is due to identification of it as a singular word. Because there is so much query specific customization with search engines, (context-dependent results), it's hard to identify what results would have been returned from their raw indexes. If you adjust the term to "hacker movie", you get more similar results between DDG and Bing. But, overall, it does seem like DDG is returning more differing results now than in the past.
lubujackson 14y ago
They definitely use Bing as their backbone as Gabriel has said somewhere before.