A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Their Authority

Re:A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Thei... by paulpauper on Sunday October 17, 2021 @03:48PM (#28899207)

duckduckgo has been marketed to death and still has only 2% marketshare. It's one thing to code a search engine ,entirely another to make one peple will use.

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Re:A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Thei... by notadoc on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:06PM (#28899345)

DuckDuckGo is often a superior search engine to alternatives, certainly less human bias, but their name does not help them. Who says "DuckDuckGo it?" They need to shorten the name considerably, either to Duck, or pick a different one entirely.

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Re:A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Thei... by adoxyz on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:39PM (#28900036)

Who is going to say "Duck it" though?

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Re:A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Thei... by new_guy on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:20PM (#28899444)

Duckduckgo isn't a 'search engine', they just get their results from Bing, they don't crawl shit themselves. They're good at marketing and convincing technically illiterate people to use them, that's all.

Look at a (non-American) search engine like Quant[0] if you want to see something people actually use.

[0]https://www.qwant.com/?l=en

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Re:A New Search Engine That Doesn’t Rank Sites Based on Thei... by cocoafleck on Monday October 18, 2021 @12:11AM (#28902161)

Qwant also uses Bing.

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