Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by tpaschalis on Thursday January 17, 2019 @10:39AM (#18931544)

Quick question, if you Google 'ddg' in incognito mode, do you get any results regarding DuckDuckGo? In the first 10 pages of Google Search I only get two 'relevant' results; one in the bottom of the first page, and a second one of an article mentioning DuckDuckGo in page 8 or something. (Not trying to start a war here, just asking).

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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by zrobotics on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:06AM (#18931822)

Android smartphone, Chrome isn't my default browser but I used Chrome (it's set to Google default, mostly for local search & YouTube). "ddg" doesn't return duckduckgo until page 4, but typing "duck" returns duckduckgo as suggested result 4, and searching "duck" returns duckduckgo on the first page.

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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by averagehuman on Thursday January 17, 2019 @01:13PM (#18933023)

I get a link to DuckDuckGo on page 3, and a mention of it on page 8.

On page 2 there is a link to "Duck Duck Geese" which is a local restaurant apparently.

Google's official reason for forcing local search results was that 1 in 5 users were searching for local results. So in this case they are returning results that are sub-optimal to 4 out of 5 users.

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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by godshatter on Thursday January 17, 2019 @02:03PM (#18933507)

I was curious so I tried "!g ddg" and duckduckgo.com was the second result on page 2, whether I was in private mode (in Pale Moon) or not.

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