I use DDG almost exclusively on my phone, and Google almost exclusively on my laptop.
DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
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Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#92Has anyone considered that the slightly longer and forgettable name DuckDuckGo might have something to do with the low mainstream presence? I think they should rebrand and market with duckgo or maybe just duck.com if at all practically possible.
It is probably not a big crucial factor for success, but I totally agree.
Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#93Most of the comments here are complaining that, while people like the idea of DDG, the search results are poor. Two comments regarding that: 1) the only way DDG is going to improve search results is by you using it regularly. Using it regularly drives not only revenue, allowing them to hire additional developers, but it also drives feedback to help DDG improve search results. 2) I suspect that the difference in searc…
> 2) I suspect that the difference in search results may partly be conditioned responses. We are accustomed to what we find through Google, so when DDG presents something that looks different
It's not just that.
When you search with DDG you may need to structure your search differently than you would do when searching with Google.
People are just so accustomed to using Google-optimized search queries that they don't even consider that they are Google-optimized and thus they don't realize how unreasonable they are when they expect Google-optimized queries to yield equal or better results in non-Google products.
Let me put it the other way: If I use my regular DDG search-terms in Google I get poorer results than I get in DDG, is that Google's fault?
Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#94It's really good to see that even in a such powerful monopoly that it is, the "search" who Google has, it still have space for competition. DDG focus on a niche on this, and they are growing.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
People can't add their location in the search terms?
Well lazy users (including myself) do not want to always add some text for their country/language/city. Basically, everyone not from US would need to add their location.
You don't need to, you can activate the region button on the top right [0].
It's not the same as Google, but it's good enough in many cases.
Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#96Most of the comments here are complaining that, while people like the idea of DDG, the search results are poor. Two comments regarding that: 1) the only way DDG is going to improve search results is by you using it regularly. Using it regularly drives not only revenue, allowing them to hire additional developers, but it also drives feedback to help DDG improve search results. 2) I suspect that the difference in searc…
> 2) I suspect that the difference in search results may partly be conditioned responses. We are accustomed to what we find through Google, so when DDG presents something that looks different It's not just that. When you search with DDG you may need to structure your search differently than you would do when searching with Google. People are just so accustomed to using Google-optimized search queries that they don't…
In a possible unfair but nonetheless relevant way, yes it is their fault.
Whether it's the intuitive way to ask a search engine a question or just a way that has become intuitive through using googe, it's how people interact with DDG. It doesn't make a difference in any practical way if that intuition has been formed over time by interacting with Google.
If you are inventing a new alternative to spreadsheets, most of your users intuitions will have been informed by excel. You'll need to live/deal with that,
Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#97The privacy of DuckDuckGo is worthless when I click on the first link and it includes ajax and fonts from the google domain (and facebook and twitter buttons and whatnot) - might as well just type my search term in google.
Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well lazy users (including myself) do not want to always add some text for their country/language/city. Basically, everyone not from US would need to add their location.
You don't need to, you can activate the region button on the top right [0]. It's not the same as Google, but it's good enough in many cases. [0] https://duck.co/help/settings/regions
Yes, I do know about that but it still fails.
E.g. I live in country `x` and set my region correctly. I search for `foobarbaz` which is some thing in my country. Though in country `y` there's also a thing called `foobarbaz` and apparently this thing in country `y` is either much more popular of that country is much bigger, so I can't find `foobarbaz` in my country, or I must look deeper into other pages.
Google now works so good, that I do not need to scroll for 9 times out of 10 and almost never go to other pages, whereas with DDG probably 1/3 of local searches ended up in looking in other pages.
Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well biggest problem for me with DDG that it does not track me or basic tracking does not cut it. Maybe I do not like some policies about users of big players, though some intelligence about the user makes service much better (extent of tracking is another question/rant). I am not from USA, and 30-50% of my searches are not in english and not some international terms. So when I search for something in my country and…
DDG has a "local search" switch on the top right corner of your search results. It seems to know where you are, you just have to ask for it.
> Now, I know, DDG can specify where I am (or I can tell it), but the thing is that it still does not work, as I expect.
I know that this feature exists, but it does not cut it.
Re: DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
#100DDG is basically a meta-search engine. It is then better to host it yourself with https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
Set it up remotely and you basicially have your own DDG.