| this was the 8th result for me in DDG, with no filters or customisation or anything So that link was 9th for me in DDG, but that exactly proves the point. Google returned a relevant result in the first position. In addition, look at the result snippet from DDG: The world is moving fast - Nexis news alerts help you keep up by delivering current news and information related to companies, trends, and events that matter to you. Set a Nexis alert related to a particular topic and get updates online or via email. I wouldn't know that page had the information I was looking for unless I visited the page and reviewed the content. That's a lot of effort, when Google has the information in the top result and the snippet clearly indicates it is on the page. (Edit: I also just looked at the content on that page, and it doesn't provide the information I was looking for. It provides the number of sources across all Nexis' searches. I was only looking for information on the news library.) Also, half of the Lexis results on the DDG SERP are about Lexus the car. Like I said, I like the mission of DDG, but in this and many other examples the organic SERP relevance is worse for multiple reasons. |
Copy/pasting your query into Google returned:
- A newspaper article about Mississippi death benefits
- A link to the Lexis Nexis site in Singapore (I'm in the United States and haven't been to Singapore in 15 years, and never with this computer.)
- A link to a financial web site in Finland
- A Google Books entry about global warming
- A Google Books entry about "The Law of the Internet"
- A lawsuit web site
- More climate change web sites, more Google Books, and something that looks like it scrapes government web sites for bidding opportunities.
Duck Duck Go returned:
- A full page of car links, but with the correct Lexis Nexis result as the third entry.
The Duck wins.