<story><title>Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-use-DuckDuckGo-instead-of-Google?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>growt</author><text>No offense to Gabriel or DDG, but this kind of question on quora always looks a bit set-up.&lt;p&gt;If you take DDG out it reads like &amp;quot;Why should I use &amp;lt;specific product&amp;gt;?&amp;quot;, to which the creator&amp;#x2F;CEO&amp;#x2F;Owner of &amp;lt;specific product&amp;gt; can now answer with the complete marketing blurb he&amp;#x2F;she has ready, without guilt.&lt;p&gt;I also have seen that about some obscure AI-Algorithm and a question like &amp;quot;Why is &amp;lt;obscure algorithm&amp;gt; so superior?&amp;quot;. To which the inventor of said algorithm had a few pages as a reply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t you say that about pretty much any time someone asks about a product in a forum where people who are involved with the product have accounts?&lt;p&gt;The question was asked on 2017-03-12. Weinberg didn&amp;#x27;t answer until 2018-01-24, 10 months later, after others had answered. After Weinberg answered others continued to add answers.&lt;p&gt;If it was a setup, they did a really good job of making it look like a &amp;quot;user finds question about something he has first hand knowledge of and answers&amp;quot; situation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s good to be cautious, but most of the time the monsters aren&amp;#x27;t actually coming to Maple Street.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-use-DuckDuckGo-instead-of-Google?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>growt</author><text>No offense to Gabriel or DDG, but this kind of question on quora always looks a bit set-up.&lt;p&gt;If you take DDG out it reads like &amp;quot;Why should I use &amp;lt;specific product&amp;gt;?&amp;quot;, to which the creator&amp;#x2F;CEO&amp;#x2F;Owner of &amp;lt;specific product&amp;gt; can now answer with the complete marketing blurb he&amp;#x2F;she has ready, without guilt.&lt;p&gt;I also have seen that about some obscure AI-Algorithm and a question like &amp;quot;Why is &amp;lt;obscure algorithm&amp;gt; so superior?&amp;quot;. To which the inventor of said algorithm had a few pages as a reply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zakk</author><text>Maybe you are right, but it&amp;#x27;s quite pointless in this context to judge someone&amp;#x27;s intentions.&lt;p&gt;Staged or not, if Gabriel&amp;#x27;s answer is factually accurate -- as it seems to be from a cursory look -- I don&amp;#x27;t see a problem here.</text></comment>