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Is there a way to get google results instead of yahoo results? I don't mean using the !g syntax, but getting actual google results in the format of duckduckgo. I love the site, but alot of the time, Yahoo's results are weak.
Congratulations Gabriel. DDG is invaluable for those of us who do not want our searches logged into a database, who do not want search results sorted by whether or not an acquaintance has "liked" a page. I wear my DDG t-shirt out and have been asked about it a couple of times. I wear it happily.
For what it's worth, I've seen absolutely no indication that Google takes social data into account when ranking results. They only show it as metadata on items within the original ordering.
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For what it's worth, I've seen absolutely no indication that Google takes social data into account when ranking results. They only show it as metadata on items within the original ordering.
Actually I saw an example of this twice earlier today. I did a search for some relatively common terms ("api debug" or something like that) and a friend's companies API came up on the first page. Hopped into incognito mode, was not to be found in the first several pages. Same thing happened not too long after, a friend's blog came up for a term, tried incognito, it was gone.
Personally, I don't think social graph leverage is bad though.
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Actually I saw an example of this twice earlier today. I did a search for some relatively common terms ("api debug" or something like that) and a friend's companies API came up on the first page. Hopped into incognito mode, was not to be found in the first several pages. Same thing happened not too long after, a friend's blog came up for a term, tried incognito, it was gone.
That could just be personalization (as opposed to social graph leverage). Personally, I don't think social graph leverage is bad though.
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At the top I see a blurb from the English Language StackExchange linking to http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2/where-does-the-... - is that not coming up for you?
Let me know what information you need and I'll send it to your feedback page. I might not be for a few hours though!
I'm buying a t-shirt to say thanks.
Congratulations, Gabriel! I am very happy for you. DDG is my default search engine, and I suggest that friends and family use it. Just wondering why you don't use https as a default setting. Also, sometimes I find the continuous scrolling of search results makes it a bit more difficult to keep track of where I have been than with Google's default 10 results per page. Consequently, sometimes I find it easier to quickl…