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Duck Duck Go, Floatplane is no where to be found. Only on google.

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Why is it when I search floatplane on Duck Duck Go, it is no where to be found. But when I search on on google It is the first result?

Try for yourself, maybe I'm the only one. https://ddg.gg/floatplane

 

I am searching from Australia, maybe that could have an effect, but I've never experienced this before.

Screenshot_2019-09-17 floatplane at DuckDuckGo.png

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No DDG results in the United States, but it's the first result on google. Pinging @Slick 

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I love flakko.  And the sandman.  I miss good news week :(

edit: and the biggig

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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This actually shocked me. ask actually found floatplane, unlike bing, duckduckgo and yahoo:
https://www.ask.com/web?q=floatplane&o=0&qo=homepageSearchBox

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28 minutes ago, MrFlacko said:

watcha talkin' about?

I thought your name was a tribute to this guy:

 

 

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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Just now, mr moose said:

I thought your name was a tribute to this guy:

 

 

lol na ive had the nickname flacko from school about 6 years ago
prior to that it was flacky throughout primary school

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Google gives you results based on your interests.  If they know you're a techie, whenever you enter a query they'll look for more tech-related results and show those first.

Duckduckgo doesn't do any of that personalizing, so the results you get there are based purely on how many hits that site gets.

 

Due to the existence of actual floatplanes, Floatplane the video platform simply isn't big enough to rank anywhere near the top 1000 results for that particular search term.  That's what you get when you name your service after an existing vehicle instead of coming up with an original name for it. 

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Just now, Captain Chaos said:

Google gives you results based on your interests.  If they know you're a techie, whenever you enter a query they'll look for more tech-related results and show those first.

Duckduckgo doesn't do any of that personalizing, so the results you get there are based purely on how many hits that site gets.

 

Due to the existence of actual floatplanes, Floatplane the video platform simply isn't big enough to rank anywhere near the top 1000 results for that particular search term. 

That's what you get when you name your service after an existing vehicle instead of coming up with an original name for it. 

yes but i was thinking because the website is floatplane.com not something weird it would come up.

If you open a private window and search it on google it still is the first result. So it's something other than based on your interests

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DDG is great for privacy, but awful if you want to find what you're actually looking for.

 

I doubt this is an issue for them. Anyone looking to sign up would just enter the address, not the name.

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1 minute ago, MrFlacko said:

yes but i was thinking because the website is floatplane.com not something weird it would come up.

If you open a private window and search it on google it still is the first result. So it's something other than based on your interests

Private mode doesn't stop Google from recognizing you by other means, such as your IP address. Google results are definitely customized.

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3 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

DDG is great for privacy, but awful if you want to find what you're actually looking for.

 

I doubt this is an issue for them. Anyone looking to sign up would just enter the address, not the name.

I disagree. If you know how to search for stuff correctly I've found it easier than google since you don't have to sort through the ads.

Because duck duck go just has a simple database for searching, if you know how to manupulate the database then it is fine for searching. You can do the same with google but a bit differently, you get better results with the google database if you ask google a question, while DDG you search for the more technical terms associated with what you want.

Example with google you would search: How do you fix this weird issue i'm having with this thing
Example with DDG you would search: Issue with thing that is doing this.

Also I've found DDG has alot more useful tools for someone who is required to do alot of technical researching and wants to get the information quickly.

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Just now, JoostinOnline said:

Private mode doesn't stop Google from recognizing you by other means, such as your IP address. Google results are definitely customized.

I forgot to mention I changed my IP as well

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Floatplane itself is nowhere to be found but a lot of results are about floatplane on other websites like this forum.

Also for the people that talk about location, in DDG you can choose your own location, or just stick to global results and they don't even appear at all in a global search so location is not the issue here.

 

Even the website from LMG appears when i search for floatplane! Like, dafuq? Whoever managed to do the SEO for LMG should work their magic with floatplane.

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3 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Floatplane itself is nowhere to be found but a lot of results are about floatplane on other websites like this forum.

Also for the people that talk about location, in DDG you can choose your own location, or just stick to global results and they don't even appear at all in a global search so location is not the issue here.

 

Even the website from LMG appears when i search for floatplane! Like, dafuq? Whoever managed to do the SEO for LMG should work their magic with floatplane.

HOLY SH*T

I didn't know that you could change your location

You can also change a bunch of other stuff, why did I never look in the settings.

This makes me love DDG even more

 

I like using google maps instead of bing maps and it changed the default map, and it still uses the dark theme along with it.

and I was getting non-australian results

 

1000 thanks to you good sir

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8 minutes ago, MrFlacko said:

HOLY SH*T

I didn't know that you could change your location

You can also change a bunch of other stuff, why did I never look in the settings.

This makes me love DDG even more

 

I like using google maps instead of bing maps and it changed the default map, and it still uses the dark theme along with it.

and I was getting non-australian results

 

1000 thanks to you good sir

About maps, there is always https://www.openstreetmap.org/

and https://wego.here.com

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Just now, samcool55 said:

About maps, there is always https://www.openstreetmap.org/

and https://wego.here.com

Yeah I saw you could change it to that to. Though I like the google reviews when i search a business

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