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HA! I started reading and researching and it just made me laugh.

Guess what you get when you go to http://duckduckgo.com/?q=jquery THATS RIGHT, an official site logo, because Gabriel is f-ing awesome and I love DDG's little almost insignificant features like showing you the official jquery website vs what you THINK the official one is, since google never helps you there.

Also I have adblocking and opt-out from google's ad tracking on so I never suffer these things. But that's what makes DDG so amazing, that opt-outs don't mater Its just so clutter free. Putting things into context vs just presenting you with data. Note that in my search results I even get the nice icons indicating if the result is spam or not. That website for the fake jquery is... well its not even on first 100 search results, may be blocked.

Thanks DDG, you just justified your existence yet again.

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For what it's worth, Bing (and therefore DDG) gets the more specific search in question right too: http://www.bing.com/search?q=jquery+1.6.2

Yes and not: they point to the official jquery site only, but the first result is the main page rather than the (more interesting imo) release post.

The second result is the release post, however - on Google, the release post doesn't show up at all in the first several pages, which is just weird.

If you go to google.com and search for jquery, jquery.com takes the top stop with several sublinks and jquery.it is nowhere on the first page. It is only for the query "jquery 1.6.2" that blogs.jquery.it outranks jquery.com (because blogs.jquery.com shuts out googlebot, as mentioned elsewhere in this thred).

How is the "Official Site" authentication done?

There are far too many "official site" links for me to think it's manual... I know DDG does deep indexing of Wikipedia, perhaps it's using the target of the "Official website" link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jquery?

Edit: Yeah, I think that's the case. These searches don't show the "Official Site" badge: http://ddg.gg/?q=jenkins+ci http://ddg.gg/?q=hudson+ci, but these do: http://ddg.gg/?q=jenkins+software http://ddg.gg/?q=hudson+software

Compare those queries to the name of the wikipedia pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)

You are probably right. Hes probably comparing search terms to wiki information and then looking for homepage info on wikipedia. You know what, thats good enough for me.

Manually, I would imagine.

That's improbable. I know Gabriel is good, but hes not god.

I love the idea of Duck Duck Go, and would really like to use it, if only it had a different name... Maybe DDG is a solution!

We have the http://ddg.gg/ short domain.

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