I see all these nuts are going to duck duck- How Google works

[Casady1]

I sold enterprise search andunderstand the algorithms. The way google works is the most popular results( in hits or times that result was viewed) comes up first. It is not based on metadata. We actually tried to sell our technology to Google in 2007 and ironically 5 years later Google used us for their litigation. They said to us metadata shmetdata. There was a google box they sold for a short time to corporations. It failed miserably because the results were based on views and not relevancy.

People do pay to get their site on top on Google.. One hint that you should know about Google. The more you define what you want to see in your results in the search box the better it works. You might have to put in a sentence. Also, some of your best info is on page 3 and 4 of the results.

[Delphinus]

1. Is it correct

that Duck Go is owned by China?

[Casady1]

2. I don't know that.

[wishstar]

7. No, that seems to be an urban myth like false claims Target was a foreign French company

I have not found any evidence whatsoever of China ownership or control of DuckGo

[EYESORE 9001]

3. I use both DDG and Google

Sometimes searching for the same thing. There are often widely divergent sets of results.

[Mister Ed]

4. It's unclear to me from the OP why it's nutty to use duckduckgo.

Could you please explain that part a little more? Or do I misunderstand the subject line? Thanks.

[Scrivener7]

6. I've used DuckDuckGo for years. The only thing I use google for is to bootleg British crime

dramas before they are available here. That is a no no. I know those posting those dramas shouldn't, and I shouldn't stream them, but I am addicted. And DuckDuckGo doesn't allow it.

Google does.

I am wondering where this sudden campaign against DuckDuckGo is coming from. All of a sudden it is the subject of many posts, which means it is the subject of many news stories. After years in business.

I would wager that lots more right wingers use Google than use DuckDuckGo.

[Casady1]

9. I only said that

because the right wing doesn't understand how google works. They think results are being suppressed and it is not how google works.

[Mister Ed]

10. Now I understand. Thanks. n/t

[Hugin]

21. It's part of their authoritarian mindset and some projection.

They would suppress things (See: Any mention of their racism) Therefore, they believe it to be a common practice.

What the dumbling caste consistently fails to grasp in their limited reptilian brainish stems is that Google is first and foremost a BUSINESS and as such it has the primary purpose of making MONEY. Suppression is the opposite of making money.

[ChazII]

5. Yahoo is the search engine that I use. n/t

[Raine]

8. I use duckduckgo

I guess that's supposed to make me a nut of some kind 🤔 but I don't like being tracked, sometimes I use Google or yahoo.

[Casady1]

11. why do people take this personally?

There is a story in the NY times how the right wing is going to duckduckgo for search.

[lagomorph777]

15. You called people using Duck Duck Go "nuts".

Why would that not be taken personally?

The remainder of your post is incoherent, so only the insult really gets processed.

[Casady1]

17. let me simplify how the search works

results are based on the number of clicks a particular answer is looked at. The more it is looked at the higher up in the result set it will become. It does not mean it is the right answer. It means that what is most popular is higher up in the result set.

[lagomorph777]

18. What does that have to do with your attack on users of DuckDuckGo?

And, duh. One would assume that PART of Google's algorithm is based on popularity. It's pretty obvious that there are numerous other factors, such as how many sites link to a given potential result, how much a given site spends on Google advertising, personal tracking of the person doing the search, etc.

[Casady1]

19. and you sold search when?

Most of the first results are paid for and it says it clearly in the result set. I was attacking the right wing. Our search engine was so good we could tell you whether you were searching for Java the bean, Java the island or Java the coding language.

here is the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/technology/duckduckgo-conspiracy-theories.html

[lagomorph777]

24. Yeesh.

Bye.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

22. It's not just that.

Assuming they know your search history, they are giving you things you like. They also know where you are in the world and will give you results based on that. If I just search for a movie (and am not using a VPN), it will give me movie times in my town for that movie today. If I then start searching for one of the stars in that movie, I won't need to put in more than a couple letters before it suggests that actor because it knows I just searched for the movie. Their algorithm does more than just clicks.

[lagomorph777]

25. Yep.

I don't really get what's got the OP's knickers in a twist.

[abqtommy]

12. I've used Duck-Duck-Go as my search engine for years now. The few times I've gone

to Google to check if better info is available it isn't. Google Schmoogle.

[a kennedy]

13. Ditto.....

[Carlitos Brigante]

14. I wasn't following you, but post 9 cleared it up. nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. Been using DDG for years

That will not be changing.

[multigraincracker]

20. Your devices are listening all the time.

My friends were talking one night and were talking about a Ukrainian friend that was getting a divorce. Next day they were getting pop up adds on the computer for “Ukrainian Divorce Lawyers”.

[Hugin]

23. After the Maidenform body thong incident...

I can vouch that this is absolutely TRUTH.

[lagomorph777]

26. I have seen this happen way too many times to call it coincidence.

[Hugin]

27. For those of us who talk in our sleep...

Every morning is a fresh Hell.

It does make for a deeper understanding of one’s Id.

[lagomorph777]

28. OMG a whole 'nother nightmare.

[Hugin]

29. After the second restraining order was served...

I did another sweep of the bedroom and found I’d missed the nest ceiling fan. I suspect it dropped the dime on me via the refrigerator.