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DuckDuckGo has done an amazing job. It must be weird to basically be the beta version of the beta version of what the bigger search engines are going to try nex
by byrneseyeview 17y ago
DuckDuckGo has done an amazing job. It must be weird to basically be the beta version of the beta version of what the bigger search engines are going to try next.
One weird thing I've noticed: your normal search is more informational and less commercial than Google's. For example:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=credit+cards&v= http://duckduckgo.com/?q=credit+cards&v=
Dmoz and the FTC outrank "creditcards.com"!
Are you disregarding a lot of the stuff companies do for SEO? Or what?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoIt is weird. Yes, where possible we're trying to get links from other, non-commercial and less SEOd sources. Of course, those sources pose their own problems... We also have a non-commercial search type accessible from our home page that further tries to reduce commercial links.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoIs this a business decision or a how-the-world-should-really-work decision?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoBoth, though the business tie-in was somewhat of an afterthought. That is I started out being fed up with spam, pseudo-spam and SEOd commercial links in Google. Then I slowly realized that when you back all those out, the end result is indeed an interesting alternative worth pursuing in its own right. Hence, the non-commercial ("less shopping sites") view.