DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online

Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by stevekemp on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:50PM (#13662976)

When it comes to search-engine tests I do the obvious thing, I search for my name! Google gives me my site at the top. Duck Duck Go puts my site in place 10-15.

I share a name with an American baseball player, so I'm not surprised I don't come universally top.

(Yes I know that Google does personalized results, but even without that I "win".)

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Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by lucideer on Thursday February 16, 2017 @04:10PM (#13663596)

You're the 25th result on Google for me. How are you testing non-personalized results on Google?

It could be that it's localising the results geographically better. DDG's results have improved enormously for me recently, to the point that I completely forget it's not Google these days, whereas I used to use the !g bang about 80% of the time, but the one thing I do still fall back to Google for is local non-US-centric content.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by stevekemp on Friday February 17, 2017 @12:53AM (#13666242)

I've tested in the past using private browser windows, mobile phones - not running android - and at web-cafes.

Surprised I'm not there, but I guess these things change over time.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by lucideer on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:13AM (#13666964)

All of those probably geolocate your IP to the same region, unless you were travelling the world at the time. You really need to use proxies or tor to get a genuinely non-personalised Google.

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