Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:49:56 -0300
riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/21, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:02:19 +0100
> > <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> (...)
> >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 09:46:53AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> >> Could you give an example where DDG fails and Google succeeds?
> >
> > 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).
>
> I have no idea if this Thetis business is pretty popular or well-know (first
> time I heard about them), but: couldn't be maybe that Thetis paid for some
> Google Ads (and no DDG Ads, let's say) and that "put them in the (G)map?
>
> Just something that came to my mind - to be rigorous: a fully *uneducated*
> guess...
A worthy guess, but it doesn't work:
1) Thetis is a pretty well known brand in this area
2) The DDG results *are for Thetis products* - but only Amazon listings
and reviews and roundups of Thetis and similar products, rather than
the company's website.
Yitzhak
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