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epi0Bauqu

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About epi0Bauqu

Gabriel Weinberg

https://ye.gg/ (personal site) https://thegreatrace.substack.com/ (newsletter)

- Founder, DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/)

- Author, The Great Race (2025, https://thegreatrace.us/)

- Co-author, Super Thinking (2019, https://a.co/d/6R73EsW)

- Co-author, Traction (2015, https://a.co/d/453gPyM)

* Personal email: yegg@duck.com

* Work email: yegg@duckudckgo.com

* Bluesky: @yegg13.bsky.social

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yegg13/

This is my original account where I generated a random username. I’m also @yegg

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    Yeah that's my bad. epi0Bauqu is my original account, but since no one knew who I was under that account I, some years later, made the yegg account and I try to post from there. Th…

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    We never used this data, other than showing favicons. In fact, we didn't (and don't in general) collect any user-level data in the first place, per our strict privacy policy: https…

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    Yes, after consulting with staff, I understand we thought it was more privacy protecting because we know our services are already encrypted and throw away PII, and so to get the fa…

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    No we're not.

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    Comment #11412188

    Thanks Andrew -- appreciate it! I shudder to think of all the things I posted 8 years ago :).

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    It is not only useful on our platform. The entire instant answer engine is open source as well, and could be incorporated in any program. Additionally, much of our Instant Answers …

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    We would love your help: http://duckduckhack.com/ DuckDuckHack (that link) is our instant answer platform and it is all open source (both the answers themselves and the underlying …

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    DuckDuckGo - Remote https://duck.co/help/company/hiring

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    Comment #10349281

    Thanks! I would too love to spread those stories to new audiences. We are really trying to branch out beyond the startup world but are honestly new to it and unsure so far what wil…

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    Comment #10349133

    It more doesn't work for our privacy policy since we don't track users.

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    Comment #10349125

    I'm not sure if we improved for Greek in particular yet but this generally (non English) has been a focus recently so it should really be improving. I'd be curious if you notice an…

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    We'd love to become the default search wherever we can!

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    Comment #10348688

    Oh man, double face palm :) I would go around to local meetup groups here in Philly and continually show it to people, as well as friends and family.

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    These interviews (I referenced above) were really the first things I did: https://www.youtube.com/user/tractionbook I blogged all of them on Hacker News (you can search the archive…

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    Comment #10348641

    We really suggest people who want to help to just help spreading DuckDuckGo, which is honestly our biggest problem (not money): https://duckduckgo.com/spread

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    Thank you! We're of course very focused on making the best mobile experience we can. We think our instant answers can be a big part of that since answers are even better on mobile …

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    Thanks! We are working on something that could tell the platform (duck.co) how much each instant answer is being used. Now each answer has a page (at http://duck.co/ia ). Bangs are…

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    We've had a lot of requests for that, but it is not on our immediate roadmap yet. If there is a good source out there (vertical search engine), it could be incorporated via DuckDuc…

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    Depends what you think of as success :) Snowden accelerated our growth by years and we are really grateful for that. However, I believe we were already a success and I was happy wi…

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    Lifestyle -- we moved here 9 years ago not knowing anyone -- after a rather complicated search for a great place to live and raise a family. There's a lot to it, but it is climate,…

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    We haven't disclosed it, but advertising is the bulk. The problem with paid is three-fold. We're a for-profit company so don't want to come off as taking donations like a non-profi…

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    Thank you for the contribution! Would love to get you back :). We've been actually open sourcing more and more because what I meant is that as DuckDuckHack grows it is becoming mor…

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    Oh that's awesome! You might want to check out our DuckDuckHack meetups (there is of course a local one) http://duckduckgo.meetup.com