Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search?
by bigbugbag on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:42PM
(#15690036)
Wow that's quite a load of useless crap, sensory information overload. For lack of a screenshot I imagine this is not presented in a consistent manner.
Apart from this inconsistent and confusing presentation, there is not much difference in actual results: duckgo offers results all with the same consistent appeareance:
1. github's homepage
2. wikipedia page about github
3. github's twitter
4. github desktop homepage
5. github's facebook
6. github's youtube
and then a load of github related results, as you can see here: https://i.imgur.com/bpDlNT1.png
Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search?
by grkvlt on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @07:50AM
(#15694549)
Actually, it's pretty consistently designed and laid out - that's not something you can fault Google for these days. Here's a screenshot of Google https://i.imgur.com/tiVr0bd.png to compare with DDG https://i.imgur.com/01Lkf2z.png (with no ad-blocking on mine) - interestingly, the top adverts are the same, both CircleCI, but I prefer the Google version, which has pricing as well, much more likely to lead to a click. Also, DDG has a second advert, under the infobox on the right, so actually 200% of the advertising that Google serves!
1. a clearly marked relevant ad at the top, for the circleci github plugin
2. an infobox at the right with details of the company, their web address, a link to their twitter account, and some related search queries
3. (first full-width result) link to github.com and summary text
4. a sub-search box to continue searching only on github.com
5. a short two-column list of six links to github.com sub sections
6. a link to the github twitter account and three square boxes across the page with its most recent tweets
7. the github wikipedia page
8. github youtube channel
9. github app for slack
10. github linkedin profile
11. github facebook page