Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)
On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:42:48 +0100
deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
>
> >> Hm. Good point. Of course, Google has a lot more resources than
> >> DDG. My hypothesis is that the advantage from that is rather
> >> marginal and that they get most of their advantage from search
> >> context. Of course, I may be wrong (as nearly always ;-)
> >
> > It's certainly hard to know how the search engine black boxes really
> > work inside, but it's also possible that all the money / engineers
> > that Google has to throw at the problem of search actually add
> > value to its solutions ;)
>
> It is not only resources, it is the algorithm and the personal data in
> question. They link and rate and provide (personalized) results. This
> way it is unlikely two different persons searching the same string
> would get same results.
> This was in the beginning. Then it became business and now it is
> political and I am not sure anymore if this is exactly what I want,
> but as said technical stuff is more or less neutral and in this case
> acceptable.
>
It may not be long before vendors are ranked or even excluded according
to their virtue-signalling activities rather than their products.
--
Joe
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