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by citruspi 4412 days ago
When I search "Baptiste Mispelon" in Google, the first three results are:

(1) Ad for Christianity

(2) GitHub Profile

(3) Twitter Profile

When I search the same thing on DuckDuckGo, the first three results are:

(1) Twitter Profile

(2) LinkedIn Profile

(3) GitHub Profile

I definitely think that the first couple of results on DuckDuckGo are as useful as those produced by Google, if not more so.

2 comments

Google may provide results that are more relevant based on you looking for someone you are in a community with, whose pages you are searching for are relevant based on searches you have made.

This specifically relies on keeping information about you that DDG won't.

Strange, I don't see any ads at the top :O on Google. I have no ad blocker enabled.
Well maybe they decided you weren't a good match for the ad after they trawled through all your email.
Adblock, do not track, ghostery, privacy badger, and Google's opt-out cookie are among the tools I'm aware of which may affect this behavior. It's complicated.
I didn't get an ad either. With my search order being Github, twitter, photos, linkedin.
I got the same results. The images are quite random.
Do you have AdBlock or the like?