On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:42:48 +0100 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Celejar wrote: > > >> Hm. Good point. Of course, Google has a lot more resources than > >> DDG. My hypothesis is that the advantage from that is rather > >> marginal and that they get most of their advantage from search > >> context. Of course, I may be wrong (as nearly always ;-) > > > > It's certainly hard to know how the search engine black boxes really > > work inside, but it's also possible that all the money / engineers > > that Google has to throw at the problem of search actually add > > value to its solutions ;) > > It is not only resources, it is the algorithm and the personal data in > question. They link and rate and provide (personalized) results. This > way it is unlikely two different persons searching the same string > would get same results. > This was in the beginning. Then it became business and now it is > political and I am not sure anymore if this is exactly what I want, > but as said technical stuff is more or less neutral and in this case > acceptable. > It may not be long before vendors are ranked or even excluded according to their virtue-signalling activities rather than their products. -- Joe
