Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by patmcguire on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:20PM (#7275423)

You can't fight the SEO feedback cycle. W3 schools was linked to by some people, so it shows up on Google, so it gets linked to by more people...

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by kbenson on Friday February 21, 2014 @02:12AM (#7275799)

Some people? By internet standards, w3schools is ancient, and has been linked by many people over the years. Here[1], I present you their main page from close to 14 years ago. The copyright notice says 1999-2000, and I think I first visited it in 1999, but I could be mistaken. That's a long time for links to accrue.

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815210025/http://www.w3schoo...

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by dangayle on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:40AM (#7277757)

Also, look at the exact match keyword text links and their site structure. They were SEO'd before there was such a thing

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by glyxbaer on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:12AM (#7276065)

oh god, they used comic sans? No wonder every homepage in the early 2000s overused that font..

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