I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I teach Python.

Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t... by miki123211 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:11PM (#37944803)

DDG's userbase is also pretty particular, though.

Your average DDG user is somewhat privacy conscious, so they probably know much more about tech tan your average Google user, and are a lot more likely to be a programmer than anybody studying literature.

If you base your algorithm purely on what results get clicks (but not on who clicks them), you essentially target your average user.

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Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t... by klibertp on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:32PM (#37945056)

I think it's just the combination of a direct match in a subdomain name, the popular and widely linked to domain name, and lack of any other context in query.

I don't remember whether DDG does anything to the scores it gets from Bing. They might, but then - taking into account how particular its users are... - the poor Franz K. would be on the third page, far behind even a Kafka library for Franz Lisp. (No, that's not a thing. A shame, I know.)

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