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 ;-)
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 ;) > Could you give an example where DDG fails and Google succeeds? I'll keep an eye out. My primary issue was with certain foreign language content - and not one of the top thirty on this list: https://www.vistawide.com/languages/top_30_languages.htm I just checked my browser settings, and I discovered that somehow my privacy settings have slipped and gotten much laxer. I've just corrected that, though, so we'll see how things go going forward. Celejar