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The author touted DuckDuckGo returning different results as an advantage, so I've been looking for differences between DuckDuckGo and Google, not similarities,
by simonsarris 14y ago
The author touted DuckDuckGo returning different results as an advantage, so I've been looking for differences between DuckDuckGo and Google, not similarities, and semantic data pulled is the easiest way to show that Google results are more informative faster.
After all, if we ignore all the sugar from Google results, and they merely return the same top result, why then would I use DuckDuckGo?
I've been fooling with it for 15 minutes now. Are there any good examples of DuckDuckGo results being more relevant than Google results?
- Draco6slayer 14y agoWell, if they're totally equal, sans sugar, then the obvious reason to choose DuckDuckGo is for privacy's sake. No sense sending personal information to Google when DuckDuckGo will do it for free.
- nilkn 14y agoThat's a fair point, and I agree with you that it doesn't really seem to give significantly different results from Google, but regardless of what the author of the post said, I think the main intended selling point of DuckDuckGo is that it doesn't track user information at all. It's not an advertising company, and Google is.
- metastrategy 14y agoDuckDuckGo makes a decent point on a page of theirs[1]. Maybe, what you're missing is conformation bias in your results. I honestly don't know, and assumed a hell of a lot. >After all, if we ignore all the sugar from Google results, and they merely return the same top result, why then would I use DuckDuckGo? The question becomes, why wouldn't you? Personally, Google has screwed me over in the past & if I can get the same top 15 from DuckDuckGo & not worry about the data mining drill down on me, I'll take my search elsewhere. [1]http://dontbubble.us/ http://dontbubble.us/