A friend called me this morning to direct me to an article at a particular web site. By the time I was ready to look at the article, I couldn’t remember the name of the site, so I did a Google search for some keywords that should have brought me to the article in question. Nothing came up. So I did the same search at DuckDuckGo, and got a bunch of hits. This is definitely an experiment you should try at home. Click the following links, and compare what comes up:
Is it that Google doesn’t know about all the sites that show up in the latter search? (That seems unlikely, doesn’t it?) Or Google knows about them, but doesn’t think I should know about them?
Google refers to itself as a search engine, but I think we need a more precise term to differentiate it from actual search engines like DuckDuckGo. How about suggestion engine?
