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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by ehsankia on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:06AM (#24624323)
There's only two solution that come to mind

1. Give it to the highest bidders (current method)

2. Give it to the highest ranking sites

From what I see, #2 is even worse for newcomers. Do you have a different suggestion that's better?

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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by z3t4 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:15AM (#24624635)
Randomize the order. Mark the highest ranking as "popular".
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by josefx on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:27AM (#24625572)
Enter Microsofts browser ballot screen that they were required to show in Europe. Broken randomness and half a dozen IE skins to game the requirement. Main requirements should be: do not let the fox guard the hen house.
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by ehsankia on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:22PM (#24629750)
Is there some threshold? Can any fork of Chromium make it on there? Can a company make 10 different forks to increase their chance? What if someone gets a really bad roll and sees 5 really shitty ones they don't know or like? How is that putting the user first?
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by MiroF on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:54PM (#24630145)
> Can any fork of Chromium make it on there?

Chromium is a browser.

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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by ehsankia on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:25PM (#24653681)
Wow, for a second I really blanked there and I was totally thinking of the Microsoft ballot. Good catch.
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by rrobukef on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:12AM (#24625856)
Reverse the order, mark the lowest ranking as popular!
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by blue_devil on Sunday October 04, 2020 @07:57AM (#24678325)
Question is: why restrict the # of providers shown at all?

They could show a semi-random segmented ranking: - split all companies into X buckets by ranking - pick the top from each bucket from 1 to X, then the second best from each bucket etc.

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