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yegg

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About yegg

Gabriel Weinberg

https://gabrielweinberg.com/ (newsletter) https://ye.gg/ (personal homepage)

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

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

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

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

* Personal email: yegg@duck.com

* Work email: yegg@duckudckgo.com

* Bluesky: @yegg13.bsky.social

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

I also have an older account where I generated a random username. That's @epi0Bauqu

Recent public activity

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    I think what people mean by everyone varies a lot, which is why I wanted to draw attention to more specific numbers. For example, in the Datos data cited[1], on desktop 86% were us…

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    Comment #48301727

    You’re welcome!

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    Comment #48280709

    Thanks. On the maps, is this through a VPN?

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    Comment #48278288

    FYI, we (DuckDuckGo) now have a subscription service ( https://duckduckgo.com/pro ) and one could always turn off ads on our search engine ( https://duckduckgo.com/settings ).

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    Comment #48269464

    Thanks, and thanks for the report. Will investigate.

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    Comment #48269155

    Got it, thanks for the clarification. We have been working on our own web index that should ultimately help with that.

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    Comment #48268982

    That feature (Search Assist) can be turned off in the settings, and we have a noai.duckduckgo.com domain that automatically turns it off along with other AI features. That said, Se…

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    Comment #48268965

    We (DuckDuckGo) does if you add reddit to the query; that forces our reddit module to show.

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    Comment #48268953

    If you mean on DuckDuckGo, we have a (relatively new) reddit module that should surface that content if you add reddit to your query.

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    Comment #48266852

    Just FYI, at DuckDuckGo we have a search setting to turn ads off: https://duckduckgo.com/settings We also have a no ai version: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

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    Comment #48220449

    Thank you!

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    Comment #48213956

    Sorry you feel that way, pooploop64. We are doing a complete brand refresh this year though.

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    Comment #48213942

    We are significantly more than that at this point, including that we've been working on our own web index for the past two years (see https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-t…

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    Comment #48213903

    Well, I'd love to know; as I've said in some other comments, we've changed and improved a lot in the last couple years and so feel free to send me feedback.

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    Comment #48200854

    Our results have continually improved, and would be happy to take your feedback (email is in my profile) if you give it another try.

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    Comment #48195918

    Do extensions not work there as well? In any case you could set it yourself as default search: noai.duckduckgo.com

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    Comment #48182712

    We now have an official noai Chrome Extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/duckduckgo-no-ai-se...

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    Comment #47768993

    This hasn't been our experience; can you please reach out to me with specific examples? My email is in my profile.

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    Comment #46262433

    Thank you

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    Comment #46262428

    Yes, we have image search. If you do a search, just click on images. We also recently added the ability to filter out a large portion of AI-generated images.

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    Comment #46262423

    We're still supportive, donating to the Perl foundation the last two years: https://duckduckgo.com/donations

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    Comment #46262418

    Back of the envelope for you: Google does about $200B in search revenue, about half in the U.S. (so $100B). We have about 3% markt share in the U.S., which would equate to about $3…