On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:21 +0530, "Phani Bhushan Tholeti" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> FOSSManiac's concerns about Google(at the last GeekMeetup on 16th Jan. > >>> 2011) may have some weight in them but that DuckDuckGo is a better choice > >>> is > >>> surely not something that I agree with. > > My exp. with DDG has been too... While Google returns wiki links to > most searches, I had to specifically type wiki with DDG. > can you explain a bit more, what exactly did you search, in my case Wikipedia results are at the top always, and AFAIK as I read this on [1]
"Weinberg said that he's worked a lot on making sure DDG search results are not filled with junk links. "First, I have to respect the work of the underlying APIs, e.g. Bing etc. have done," he wrote. "For the 0-click info in particular, I try to use sites that have addressed the spam problem already, e.g. Wikipedia. I show these links on top often, which are of course harder to game because humans police them. On top of that I crawl the Web actively looking for spam sites and have been way more aggressive at removing them than the other engines." > >>> 1.Google's search is more refined and to the point.Though it can be > >>> attributed to the fact that DuckDuckGo is a new player. > Let's hope so. Or better Google gets their search engine into the GPL > > Being a fan FOSS is good, but I think some of us relinquish features > to FOSS. I am not sure if that's good. > Using DDG is not about just being a FOSS fan, at the least its caring about *your* *own* Privacy, but being a FOSS project, it is even more closer, to my heart! [1] <http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/duckduckgo-doesnt-track-or-share-your-web-sea> -- Parin Sharma https://identi.ca/fossmaniac -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
