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by jebblue 5136 days ago
It looks like a cheap knock-off of Google and doesn't give me the hit count for "Ubuntu" (or I missed it). Google gives me over 200 million, Bing over 44 million.
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How is that in any way a useful statistic? Who cares about 200+ million results vs. 44 million? Most people don't look at the fifth result, let alone the 200 millionth one. What matters is the first page and whether those top results are the best and most relevant for a given query.
It's useful to me, I've looked at it for over a decade, I want to get a good feeling that my search engine is doing everything it can to scour the Internet and is not filtering my search results out, they prioritize and that's cool.
>> Google gives me over 200 million, Bing over 44 million.

Is that relevant to your evaluation of a search engine? I don't care how many hits the engine shows, just what it shows in the first 3 links or so. The rest is noise.

You bet, you can't plan a trip to the farthest reaches of the Universe on only a few data points.
Just so you know, at least Google's hit count is usually off by several orders of magnitude. It's comforting to see it, but it's almost entirely inaccurate.
I've seen out field (ok outlier) data points end up making all the difference in the end. That's why it matters to me.
Google's hit counter is inaccurate, and it still won't show you any results past the top 1000. What are you using it for?
As far as I know DDG uses mainly the BOSS API. When I tested the BOSS API for http://kligl.com I found that the reported result count was consistently lower for BOSS compared with the (still) free Bing API, even though the underlying data is the same. That's probably why it is not reported on DDG. Both only give you the first 1000 results max so it makes no difference in practice.
Google gives me over 200 million, 9 which are useful, Bing over 44 million, 10 which are useful.

There, fixed that for you.

You fixed it for you, not for me. DuckDuckGo does not tell me the data pool they are recommending results to me from. That is huge to me.
Aside from ubuntu.com and launchpad.net, what else would you like in your Ubuntu data pool?
Well it uses Bing as it's index, so 44 million.