Comment on The end of the Googleverse
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year agoDuckDuckGo is obviously better for privacy for example but it doesn't seem to have any ambition except to deliver the same results as Google but without the ads
I don't think duckduckgo has ANY control over improving the search results. Except maybe switching to a different engine.
micka190@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty much. The reason Google’s search results were so good was because of the information they had on you and on other users who made similar searches. I’m not advocating for DDG to start tracking users, though. But it’ll be hard for them to have a “Google-like” search experience (single search bar with no other parameters) without that kind of data.
Kolrami@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google immediately jumped ahead in search when it started by having a simple webpage and using PageRank. This was a while before there were even Gmail accounts and all the tracking we’re given now.
At this point I’d settle for a search company that doesn’t care to track you, uses general (not specific) predictive search, implements Boolean search, and isn’t diminished in quality by SEO.
That last criterion is the hardest one. It might not even be feasible.