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Re:The Google Squeeze by chii on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @06:21PM (#21519347)
And also, why doesn't DDG grow in market share if Google's results are worse?

My hypothesis is that Google's results aren't bad - they are actually serving a set of results which satisfies the laymen, and it's only the technical, highly niche users with whom the results don't align.

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Re:The Google Squeeze by artifaxx on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:23PM (#21519793)
DDG is growing exponentially, Google is just massive and it takes a while to grow big enough to notice https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
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