[dredmorbius]

More search results than layout, but as a friend pointed out, "open source office suite" produces notably and significantly different top results in DDG and Google.

Specifically: the DDG results don't rank the arguably top-rated open source offic suite (LibreOffice) at the top of the results page, instead showing an order suspiciously similar to that of Bing. Google (both logged in and out) puts LibreOffice at the top of results, as does StartPage.

Some argue a bias against free software by DDG. I apply Hanlon's razor, but this is one example where improving results would be a bonus.

Screencaps of results:

http://imgur.com/a/XAb1F

[maaaats]

My Google isn't the same as yours, so you should stop reading so much into this. Besides, it's really the same results, just ordered slightly different. For me, Google shows pcworld->libre->open. DDG shows pcworld->open->libre, e.g. #2 vs. #3.

[dredmorbius]

I'm aware that Google targets its responses.

I've got my search history disabled (when logged in), and ran the second search in a logged-out session, to see if the results differed (that they don't is ... curious).

StartPage, however, claims to proxy its results anonymously, which makes the similarity with my Google search results ... interesting.

That said, for DDG not to return the leading open source office suite as its top result (similar to Bing's response) strikes me as a less-than-optimal situation.

SERP is the new Tarot.