DuckDuckGo experiment: no such thing as impersonal Google results [Startup Roundup]

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Search engine DuckDuckGo just released a video that aims to show that there’s no such thing as impersonal Google results. The video shows results from an experiment the team did in which more than 100 people searched the same topics while logged out of Google. Talking Points Memo interviewed DuckDuckGo founder Gabe Weinberg about the experiment.

There are no “regular results” on Google anymore. from DuckDuckGo on Vimeo.

Edtech startup ApprenNet launches a K-12 version of its legal education program, Flying Kite reports. Meanwhile, registration for its National Science Foundation-backed massive open online course has grown from 200 to 500 people, according to this tweet.

Real estate data startup Kwelia runs a “sentiment analysis” on tweets during last week’s vice-presidential debate. Check out the results here, and check back for a similar analysis of last night’s debate. Kwelia also got a mention in The Economist as one of accelerator Startup Chile‘s participants.

GIVE A GLANCE

This Oct. 25th, Philly Startup Leaders Poker is back at 50 on Red‘s office at the Cira Centre. Reserve your spot here.

DreamIt Ventures company PeerActive (the first Australian startup to get chosen for the accelerator) gets featured in StartupSmart.

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Here’s some slides from Cloudmine cofounder Marc Weil recent presentation on how to build a startup team.

Take a look at some of Lokadot’s project proposals to the Knight Arts Challenge, which stopped accepting applications earlier this week.

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