Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:53AM
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I've already said that I believe the most likely thing they are looking for is the wikipedia page. How many times do people actually buy flowers? Once or twice a year? If they are doing it any more often than that, then they shouldn't need to google "flowers" each time....
Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by lmm on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:27AM
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> If they are doing it any more often than that, then they shouldn't need to google "flowers" each time....
Why not? Computers are better at memorizing things than people; it shouldn't be a human's job to remember a site URL (and browser bookmarks are less useful than intelligent search engines).
Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @02:33PM
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I imagine after a few times they would have a particular business or location in mind, and use google to search for that instead. For instance, if I googled "flowers" a few months ago and found "Joes Flower Shop in Seattle", if I wanted flowers again I would google "joes flowers seattle" instead of "flowers".
If they wanted the wikipedia page, they would have performed the search directly on wikipedia.
The question you have to ask is: what is the most likely thing they are looking to do? Is it to learn more about flowers (wikipedia) or is it to buy flowers (regular results with ads + map of nearby flower sellers)?