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Which websites' search engines work like Google's ? See detail.

Asked by flo (13313points) October 23rd, 2019

Google’s search engine lists different possiblities before you even finish the word/s and it asks ’‘Did you mean ’’....?’’ Which other sites (not just competitors of Google) do that?

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si3tech's avatar

You mean search engines that censor?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

None use the same logic.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Isn’t that the auto suggest / auto fill in feature? That can be turned on or off on most search engines.

elbanditoroso's avatar

It’s using intelligent typeahead. Strictly speaking, it’s using AJAX (AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.) for stem lookups and retrieval.

flo's avatar

@si3tech Censor? I don’t see that as censoring.
@Tropical_Willie Fluther gives you the possible ones. For example Mayo clinic the search term “Recalled food” lists nothing.
@LuckyGuy Why would anyone want to turn an auto fill in feature? And how do you turn on the Mayo Clinic’s?
@Caravanfan Thanks. That’s one example. How do you pick the language though?
@elbanditoroso I’m looking for other sites that do the auto fill in feature and “Did you mean…” feature

seawulf575's avatar

I’m with @Caravanfan. I use DuckDuckGo. What I have found when I compare those search results with what I get from Google also is that Google leans heavily to the left where as DDG is more balanced.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Okay @seawulf575 Google might appear to you to be left biased because it doesn’t show all the Breitbart (make believe for Trump) and ultra right wing fake person websites.

flo's avatar

How about sites other than search sites, for example, NYC city hall:
https://www1.nyc.gov/ I entered “tourists’ favorites”, and there was no auto fill in feature.

seawulf575's avatar

@Tropical_Willie No, Google seems to be left because it IS left. We had this discussion once upon a time. I tried an experiment. I did a search in both Google and DDG…same words used in each search. The results I got back in Google were all leftist. I had to go two pages to get to one site that wasn’t left leaning. Not even Fox news on their results. On DDG I got a much more balanced result. Some of the people were trying to say that Google’s algorithm picks the most popular sites first, but that wasn’t true either. I had Huffington Post, Vox, Salon and a few others long before I even saw Fox news. And when I went to the Fox website, I found dozens of articles released with the same exact search. So the articles were out there but Google wasn’t choosing to show them.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

SAME logic as yours:

DDG is right winged biased because there are fewer moderate and left leaning articles pulled up first.

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