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? Cheers - t
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