Re: Google vs. DDG
> Here's a sort of example I just ran into. When trying to find
> information about Thetis hardware security keys, DDG simply couldn't
> find the company's website: searching DDG for "thetis key" turns up (in
> the first page of hits) a bunch of Amazon listings, and a bunch of
> reviews of, and articles about, security keys that mention Thetis.
> Searching for the same thing on Google, OTOH, returns the company's
> website (https://thetis.io) as the first hit (along with a convenient
> list of pages on the site).
FWIW, I'm pretty sure that such anectodal evidence is of no importance
because you can also come up with examples where the situation
is reversed.
This is simply because the subset of the internet that is indexed by the
two search engines is not simply in a subset relation. So the question
is not whether such things happen, but how often they happen for your
use-case one way compared to how it happens for your use-case the
other way.
And of course this question is only relevant as one of the properties
distinguishing the two search engines. Obviously, the purpose of DDG is
not to give better search results.
BTW, as far as I know, DDB doesn't do its own indexing but it relies
internally on Bing, so in the above is explained by the difference
between Bing and Google. Technically they could probably just as
well rely on Google (or on both).
Stefan
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