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Posted May 17, 2013 9:46 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (guest, #51848)
In reply to: Not Go! by Cyberax
Parent article: Go language 1.1 released

Which is why these "x is hard to search for" complaints are getting more and more difficult to substantiate precisely (at least using Google), as Google is very adept at delivering personalised search results nowadays.

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Posted May 17, 2013 13:27 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link] (4 responses)

> Google is very adept at delivering personalised search results nowadays.

Yes. Yes, they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

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Posted May 17, 2013 13:38 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (guest, #51848) [Link] (3 responses)

Duckduckgo have a nice simple explanation of why it's an issue too, at http://dontbubble.us/

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Posted May 17, 2013 15:39 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link] (2 responses)

I use DuckDuckGo for all my initial search attempts, and I agree that anonymous searching should be something we should all be getting by default, but either the personalisation makes a significant quality difference (as well as the obvious relevance difference) or the preferred search providers of DuckDuckGo - they use Bing quite a bit - are rather awful at offering half-way decent search results that don't push Microsoft-related resources when asked about something else.

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Posted May 17, 2013 15:57 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (guest, #51848) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't think it's the personalisation that makes the primary difference. My browser discards cookies regularly, and I don't generally sign in to Google, but when I'm having trouble finding something with duckduckgo Google does tend to provide better results. Having said that, it's very rare for DuckDuckGo to not find what I'm looking for. Nowadays I tend to use wikipedia rather than a web search engine to find what I need, though, depending on domain.

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Posted May 20, 2013 8:16 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> Nowadays I tend to use wikipedia rather than a web search engine to find what I need, though, depending on domain.

Yeah, Wikipedia is my default search engine too. But that also means that I have to retrain my fingers for the cases when I don't want to search in Wikipedia to open something else than Google. It's hard :)