As a result of all this, I do not trust this search engine - the quality of the results is often very poor in my view. Yes, as well as providing content based on my genuine expertise, I do understand how to lay out a page for readers. In addition, the rest of the results are utterly poor, with links to pages not properly hosted and small badly written text, and poor layout.

Example - a new website that has merely 2 links and has again curated my work (with no experience themselves in the subject) ranks above me, whilst my page is not even on the second of their search results. However, this is not true in my experience. How would you feel if it were you? - Again, on a similar note, they claim that reputation built via links is vital for search.

There is no-one to report this to at Duck Duck Go - and certainly not privately. Google would penalise such activity, and there is a mechanism to report it. Well it worked! They ranked above me for my own content - actually at the top! You may not think this would matter, but how is this fair, and why should I be encouraged to continue with my labour? I earn my living online, and to steal content is to steal my income. I have experience of this - a website with a non-related subject literally copying my page for the sake of a search phrase. I have found: - Duck Duck go do not penalise pages that simply copy and paste from other websites.

I know this as a person with a well established website about a specific area of expertise I have built over many years, I share this information for free with visitors. Why? This is because I believe their search algorithm to be flawed and giving poor results. I feel I have given it a fair chance - it's now February, and will now switch back. I switched to this service from Google and Bing before Christmas 2020 because I was concerned about increasing power of those 2 organisations.

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