The director of the Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Associate Professor David Holmes, said the results demonstrated the importance of news media to search engines, with the top search terms clearly reflecting that people were trying to learn more about current affairs topics. “It is in the interests of search engines to show news sites because that brings users who are in search of trusted and useful quality content,” he said. “These results suggest that Google’s competitors are well able to deliver that kind of professional content.”
Don’t be fearful of change, sometimes you end up even better off. So experiment a little.
#technology #search #news
This is not great news. I can’t find any link to the actual study but the implication is that Microsoft Bing and Bing front-end ecosia deliver more mainstream news articles which is significant
Some have commented in the past that the true spirit of de-google is actually de-MACFANG and in this case promoting Microsoft and it’s proxies is not super progressive.
Yes real pity that it was not actually published as I also find no reference to the study, just the quotes given by the professor.
Google stood out amongst all others but what I suspecting is that other search engines are getting better. Ecosia may have an edge too on this topic as that is something they support.
But I think it also shows that we got so used to using Google we assume everything will stop working without it. The shiny new parts of Google seem a bit tarnished nowadays and I suspect they are not innovating as much. What with union issues now etc, Google is not the Google it once was when it started up ;-)
What does this mean? Does ecosia have their own algorithms above and beyond fetching results from other engines like Bing?
They are not a good privacy search engine in any event:
https://info.ecosia.org/privacy