DuckDuckGo is sweet. Just yesterday I switched my default engine from Google to DDG. It's funny how bloated Google search has become.
just going to give my counterexample of still personally preferring google to ddg.
DuckDuckGo/WOT search partnership
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Re: DuckDuckGo/WOT search partnership
#12I'm not so sure this is going to be a beneficial partnership for DDG. It might hurt the quality of the search results. When I was looking into this sort of market (website trust metrics/scam+spam defense) WoT was the biggest player but their accuracy was absolutely horrible which made it near useless.
It is not the default, and currently only used for display purposes when turned on. I've gotten a lot of requests for this setting to be made available.
Hi Gabriel. Would it be possible to have the option to see both the WoT icons and the Favicons? I'm not sold on the WoT yet, but when I try it, I immediately miss the favicons..
Re: DuckDuckGo/WOT search partnership
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not the default, and currently only used for display purposes when turned on. I've gotten a lot of requests for this setting to be made available.
Hi Gabriel. Would it be possible to have the option to see both the WoT icons and the Favicons? I'm not sold on the WoT yet, but when I try it, I immediately miss the favicons..
Yeah, that is something I'm working on, but wanted to get this out in the mean time.
Re: DuckDuckGo/WOT search partnership
#14WOT has proven itself over the last couple weeks to me to be incredibly untrustworthy, dominated by "platinum" members who rate and comment down sites without having done any actual research on the business, and who absolutely will not correct erroneous ratings and comments when factual data such as BBB ratings, PCI certification, news articles and customer testimonials clearly tell a different tale. If you look in the forums you can see the flagrant ignorance of these controlling users. Because the ratings are so heavily weighted toward the power WOT'ers who have dedicated months of their time to rating sites they know nothing about, you could have literally dozens of glowing ratings and comments by real customers and one or two of these heavy weights can drag down the site rating into the red. WOT is dangerous, misleading and a farce. ...and yet website owners have no choice but to dive into the chaos to try and fight back against this horrible system to attempt to protect their good names.