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

Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by sbierwagen on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:20PM (#13664110)

1.) DDG results tend to be way spammier. Search a product name, get garbage results, rather than links to product pages at various stores.

2.) Index isn't as complete. I very frequently do site: queries on my blog/other people's blogs to find years-old posts that I vaguely remember. Google's indexed them, DDG hasn't.

3.) Google is way better at reading my mind. Vague queries, queries that aren't literal text strings, etc.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by tagawa on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:48PM (#13664712)

Pretty sure reading users' minds would violate our privacy policy.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:27PM (#13664164)

> 3.) Google is way better at reading my mind. Vague queries, queries that aren't literal text strings, etc.

I also find that DDG results are often unusably bad. But I wish Google would give you the option to restrict your search to being interpreted as a search for that literal text. Those unsolicited magic results can really get in the way.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust O... by benchaney on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:03PM (#13664427)

I think surrounding the query with quotes will do that.

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