Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by howeyc on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:21PM (#7273278)

"Mr. Babage if I were to feed wrong inputs to that calculation machine will it still produce correct outputs?"

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by untog on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:00PM (#7273551)

...but Google does do that.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by comex on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:41PM (#7274453)

That would be more analogous to Google correcting input for perceived spelling errors. Putting in garbage as a query isn't wrong, it has a well-defined answer for the vast majority of garbage.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by vacri on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:32PM (#7274156)

And yet the commentor is claiming that the other tool is able to produce useful output from those inputs.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by enneff on Thursday February 20, 2014 @07:06PM (#7274570)

"correct" is not equivalent to "helpful"

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by KiwiCoder on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:53PM (#7273904)

The better part of this quote is the sentiment that follows;

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by streetnigga on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:53PM (#7273493)

"Look at this! If I mash gibberish into a search engine it returns the same."

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