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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by Crito on Thursday February 20, 2014 @08:29PM (#7274885)
That plural/singular makes a difference there is something that I would consider to be a fault. "Llamas" gives me the page for "llama". Why should "flower" and "flowers" give me radically different results?

If I wanted to buy flowers I'd search "florist" or "online florist". The wiki page for florists is surely of far less interest than the page for flowers.

I suspect the google/ddg results for "flowers" are a result of florists SEO'ing out the ass, not a reflection on what people are actually looking for when they search for things.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by enneff on Thursday February 20, 2014 @09:00PM (#7274994)
More likely: Google have noticed users that search for "flowers" typically go on to search for "flower delivery", and started showing them results relevant to their intent.

The Google result page for "flowers" also includes the wikipedia page for "Flower", btw.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @12:02AM (#7275540)
> "The Google result page for "flowers" also includes the wikipedia page for "Flower", btw."

Yeah, but it is farther down the list. I have to search for it.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by saltysugar on Friday February 21, 2014 @01:01AM (#7275654)
Father? It's the second item on the list for me (and I use incognito)
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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:38AM (#7276128)
In incognito mode, it is 16th down the list for me, including ads and local results. Do you have an adblocker turned on or something?
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