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It's unclear why that is, and why search is so hard, but obviously it is.
DuckDuckGo has 50-100 employees, according to CrunchBase, while Google has over 100,000 employees. The exact numbers are irrelevant, but Google has around three orders of magnitude more employees than DDG. a) DDG needs about 1/1000th the revenue of Google to survive at its current scale. b) Software quality does not scale linearly with manpower. A 50-100 person team can do /almost/ as well as a 10,000 person team in…
Same, my problem is that whenever I search for something that isn't english DDG can't find even the most basic stuff. Aside from that the migration has been pretty painless for me though so I have my hopes up.
I like DuckDuckGo, but it's much worse than Google at localisation. It's annoying to have to search, then repeat the search with "UK" on the end to make it realise I'm not interested in buying e.g. building supplies or coffee or beer from US-based businesses. I get that it has no concept of who I am when I search, but some kind of localisation based on IP address could maybe help? Also, it feels a little disingenuous…
There is a slider that allows you to put it on or off. If your IP is in the UK, the slider will say "United Kingdom on/off" or something like that.
If I'm searching for programming stuff or similar, I want it off. If I'm searching for shops that sells bricks for my new wall, I want local results.
I've also noticed that even with it on, the "local" indexing is distinctly significantly worse than Google. That is, Google is much, much better at finding relevant pages which may contain variations on my search term when using my native language.
I guess that's just a question of resources, which is fair enough.
DuckDuckGo has 50-100 employees, according to CrunchBase, while Google has over 100,000 employees. The exact numbers are irrelevant, but Google has around three orders of magnitude more employees than DDG. a) DDG needs about 1/1000th the revenue of Google to survive at its current scale. b) Software quality does not scale linearly with manpower. A 50-100 person team can do /almost/ as well as a 10,000 person team in…
Also, the sizes should be completely fixed like you can choose between predetermined pixel ratios. Like maybe 162x100 or 1600x30 or whatever.
With people angsty with social media, I think it could be quite refreshing to have a trip back in time.
I like DuckDuckGo, but it's much worse than Google at localisation. It's annoying to have to search, then repeat the search with "UK" on the end to make it realise I'm not interested in buying e.g. building supplies or coffee or beer from US-based businesses. I get that it has no concept of who I am when I search, but some kind of localisation based on IP address could maybe help? Also, it feels a little disingenuous…
There is a slider that allows you to put it on or off. If your IP is in the UK, the slider will say "United Kingdom on/off" or something like that.
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A paid search engine could work once it proves itself . This means they need to put a significant amount of work and server resources into it first , get a critical mass of users and then they can make it paid.
Sure, the "only" thing you need to do is 1) Build a better/equal search engine to that of Google 2) Convince people it's better enough that it's worth paying for, or that their privacy matters enough that they should pay to not use Google. 3) Maintain your costs of operation and make a profit There is no way I would invest in a company that attempted this, but as I said, I admire someone that would try.
For what it is worth Google has been busy lowering that bar for about 10 years:
- lower quality results
- dumber ads
- more nauseating practices generally
I'd like to no however that last summer the most brain dead ads disappeared and the last few weeks I've seen decent search results (2009 quality) twice.
When Google is good old Google from 2009 - where they return the exact weird quoted thing I seached for - then I actually consider going back.
I dislike Google as a company but their search results are orders of magnitude better than the competition. DDG or Bing are, to me, very bad (aren't they almost the same anyway?) It's unclear why that is, and why search is so hard, but obviously it is.
DDG doesn't track you.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/google-incognito-search-re...
DuckDuckGo has 50-100 employees, according to CrunchBase, while Google has over 100,000 employees. The exact numbers are irrelevant, but Google has around three orders of magnitude more employees than DDG. a) DDG needs about 1/1000th the revenue of Google to survive at its current scale. b) Software quality does not scale linearly with manpower. A 50-100 person team can do /almost/ as well as a 10,000 person team in…