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Congrats for your search engine. I admire the work you did. The only reason I don't use DDG is that I'm Greek and the results for Greek keywords are many orders of magnitude off-mark compared to Google. Why is that? Any hope to improve results in the future?
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Hello, Congrats for your search engine. I admire the work you did. The only reason I don't use DDG is that I'm Greek and the results for Greek keywords are many orders of magnitude off-mark compared to Google. Why is that? Any hope to improve results in the future? ty
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Yup, that's very true but the numbers just don't add up well on search in terms of subscription or donation. We have tried to do much less advertising, making it up on affiliate revenue, but we can't do that much because of our privacy policy. We can only use programs that can be anonymous, which means the companies run them themselves through URL parameters, and that's really just Amazon and eBay.
Could it be up to the user? For example, subscribers do not see ads, but everybody else does? Or does that not work for your advertising customers?
Congrats and all the best with the book! Happy to participate and hope it can help get my experiences with Reddit, Hipmunk and beyond into as many people's heads as possible.
I love DDG's bangs and instant answers. Do you have any statistics on their usage? Like counts of how many times a bang or an instant answer was used? And will Dax play a bigger role in the future, in branding to give more personality? It wasn't easy finding the name of the duck I see daily. ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=name+of+the+duckduckgo+duck )
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 a bit different but we're working on open sourcing that too. Dax, yes! We're going through internal branding strategy right now and your comment is very welcome in that context.
Where did the name for DuckDuckGo come from?
Are there any features that you wanted or thought about implementing into DuckDuckGo but could not for technical reasons or otherwise?
Tons. There are so many constraints like getting access to data in a cost-sustainable manner. We try not to pay to data, for example, but some data is expensive. That's why we still don't have movie showtimes, for example.