wu'cha browsin' nekkid for? get an ad blocker. that should be the very first thing that goes in your browser, then fix the default settings that nobody wants enabled. then go get your libreoffice and other stuff.
i like that someone maintains ublockorigin.com as a landing page for ubo with links to the appropriate addon site for your browser. makes it a little easier to get to on a new pc.
Same, I just went to check and had the same result. Default Firefox browser (no add-ons or customization), no ad-blocker, DDG search for "libre office" and the top 3 results were direct links to download it, and the 4th was a wiki article on it
Do you have ad blockers? The EBay link and Microsoft link are both ads, which is why they appear first. I do get results similar to this if the ad blocker is disabled, but with Amazon instead.
adblocker here and using the same term op used i get nothing but legit libreoffice.org links (including the auto-generated wiki info at the very top) all the way down the first ddg serp... except the last entry on that page, which wsa an seo operation using libreoffice content to game google and promote totally unrelated links.
Same, and that was whether I searched with or without a space between 'libre' and 'office'. In fact all ten results on the first page of results were directly related to the software - either links to the site itself, or reviews of the software.
It also somewhat embarrassingly revealed that the page title for us.libreoffice.org is "Home | Your Site Name - your tagline here"...
DDG ads (the top two links) can be disabled within DDGs own settings (gear icon on the far upper right corner, directly below the search bar magnifying glass icon). That said, one should still run ublock origin & keep it updated.
I wish, they would make the ads at least a tiny bit more obvious. Like, it's almost certainly illegal in my country that they're not, but it also just makes DuckDuckGo look terrible, when something like this happens.
Well ddg uses bing on the backend, so this doesn’t surprise me. I am wondering what it is they are selling on eBay. Is someone burning these to DVD roms and selling those or something? Or laptops preloaded with Linux?