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I like DDG, but has it ever mentioned how this TRACKING data is used? http://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmv.org%2Fpractice-tests%2F http://d
by mikemoka 13y ago
I like DDG, but has it ever mentioned how this TRACKING data is used?
http://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmv.org%2Fpractice-tests%2F http://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmv.org... (every time you click on a search result you actually click on a link like this,which redirects you to the actual page)
Is it just for pagerank?
- zwegner 13y agoThis irritated me, as it makes me somewhat skeptical of the "we don't track" claim. However, I noticed that if you use their HTML version (i.e., use duckduckgo.com/html/<query> instead), that they don't do the click-tracking. The only downside I've noticed is that there's no infinite-scrolling mode, you have to hit "next". Whether they're still tracking the search queries, though, I have no idea...
- gohrt 13y agoDDG just claims they don't store your history. Presumably they could use redirected clicks as quality signal, without tying it to your browser cookies.
- boyter 13y agoIt might be used internally for additional ranking signals. But the privacy policy states it can never be tied back to you as an individual so nothing to worry about. From memory the main reason they do this is to allow downstream websites to determine if a user was referred to them by DuckDuckGo without the actual search term. IE you know they came from DDG but with no leakage. I run searchcode.com (which provides a lot of the code doco and sample results) and since this was done I can now determine how much referral traffic actually comes from DDG but have no idea what you were searching for when you click through.
- claudius 13y agoYou can turn that on/off in the settings dialog, essentially it is meant to hide the search queries from the target website.
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