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The sole benefit of DDG is their claim that they don't track. One problem with this narrow focus is that many people mistakenly carry this statement over to an assumption that DDG doesn't censor their search results. I suspect that DDG both knows and counts on this as an aspect of an undeserved reputation. DDG's search results aren't acceptable for anything even mildly controversial. I'll use them for image searches,…
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Isn't DDG a Bing front-end? So did Bing improve recently?
No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack
And the exclusion filters fail identically, on "uefi hack -bootkit": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit
And partially succeed identically: 'uefi hack "absolute computrace"': https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack+%22absolute+computrace%2... https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack+%22absolute+computra...
The only differences seem to be the suggestions, infoboxes and similar "value adds."
(Submitted title was "DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US".)
If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Titles are by far the biggest influence on discussion, so this is an important rule.
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Trusting in appointed experts instead of critical thinking is the worst thing to do in uncertain times.
Nobody knew if covid was airborne at the time, so the most correct answer was nobody knows. Some people got lucky by making things up on the spot and guessed it was airborne. At a certain point their confirmation bias and distrust of media broke their perception of the world and they became antivax etc, still no critical thinking taking place.
Their was no vaccine at this point so no one against it yet.
The critical thinking can be found in the independent minds of those who made the choice to wear a mask. Listening to an expert didn't play out well.
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No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates
This seems incredible to me. The raw results are obviously very close. I get the same results in the same order for searching 'uefi hack': https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack And the exclusion filters fail identically, on "uefi hack -bootkit": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit And partially succeed identically: 'uefi h…
I have been wondering if thisnis due to some changes with Bing (which is the underlying engine as far as I know).
I've used DDG as my main search engine for about 4 years now. Until recently I found I was still having to go to Google for specific queries, mainly answering coding problems. But in the last 6 months or so, Google's results have gotten so bad and DDG has continued to improve to the point where I no longer bother with !g. When I do use Google I often find myself in the strange position of not actually being able to f…
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Politics is about how you think things should be run. Science is about what we have evidence for. They are not the same thing.
Science is about coming up with a hypnosis or theory and testing it. The evidence comes at the end not before the theory