On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:02:19 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 09:46:53AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > You've been making some very interesting points here about the key > > being context, but I'm not sure I totally buy it. DDG simply doesn't > > work well for me in certain areas of interest to me. Perhaps I'm simply > > not sufficiently skilled at disambiguation (my "DDG fu" needs > > improvement?), but I'm simply much less productive with DDG than with > > Google. And I do usually access Google without being logged in, with > > most cookies blocked, NoScript, etc., so in general it has much less > > (not zero, of course) "context" with regard to me than it does in > > general. > > 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 ;-) > > Could you give an example where DDG fails and Google succeeds?
Here's a sort of example I just ran into. When trying to find information about Thetis hardware security keys, DDG simply couldn't find the company's website: searching DDG for "thetis key" turns up (in the first page of hits) a bunch of Amazon listings, and a bunch of reviews of, and articles about, security keys that mention Thetis. Searching for the same thing on Google, OTOH, returns the company's website (https://thetis.io) as the first hit (along with a convenient list of pages on the site). At least, this is what I get here. Who knows what you'll see ... Celejar
