A Duck & a Wiki Team Up Against the Content Farms

Sometimes, whilst DDG's partnerships can be great for getting quality content to the top of search results; it's definitely not the sort of thing I'd want to see a dominant search engine doing. DDG obviously needs to do things differently in a way that can drive them traffic, but if Google were to do this, they'd quite rightly be blasted because such partnerships could massively impact the ability of other site's to grow organically without the engine's blessing.

Google has mentioned they're working on the content farm problem. I would expect them to make some moves faster that are smarter than banning content farm X while partnering with content farm Y. Likely algorithmically, coz that's how they roll.

I'm sorry but I have big problems with calling DDG a real search engine. Their page states "DuckDuckGo is a search engine like Google." BS. It's a meta search engine that relies on other real search engines, such as Bing, to get the results. If ever becomes a threat to Bing, they'll cut them off in a second. DDG doesn't do the hard and resource-intensive work of crawling and ranking the pages, they just tweak the results of others in ways that gets them publicity on tech blogs.

DDG is supplanting labor intensive algorithmic improvements with manually manicured search results. Compared to Google's vast network of resources, it is a logical step for DDG to take. It is, essentially, a fast fix to a real problem.<p>Google has to do things the hard (and dare I say... proper?) way.

DDG has a laughably small market share. This doesn't necessarily make them a non-threat, but it's going to take more than this to change users' search behavior (ie convert them from Google to DDG) on even a minute level. I mean Google has the whole page preview thing now anyway, and the content farm thing should be fixed soon, as mentioned. Honestly, Google Instant is the best thing in search for a long time and it's so ingrained in my expectations now that I couldn't see switching to a search engine without it.<p>So asking what Google will do isn't really an important question.

How odd that even a year ago it seemed that the search engine space was closed to new entries, even solved - and now it feels wide open again.

So we have the website equivalent of spam. A simple solution would be to have a secondary page labeled "We think this is spam" where all the banned links would reside. Anyone who needs to see what's there could always dig in.

Is DDG one person?

google's not going to do anything because they're in the business of making money off of search and duckduckgo is not