DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year

Post by stinos » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 10:05 AM UTC

AdamSC1 wrote: post #128

stinos wrote: post #42

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DDG search in my experience has gotten vastly better in the past year or so. Had the exact same impression. There are numerous threads on HN involving DDG in the last couple of years and in more than one of them I complained about the results, but slowly yet steadily there are always less reasons to complain it seems. DDG does not yet find everything as quick as I'd want it to but when my go-to would be !g in the pas…

Hey Stinos, Thanks for the feedback - part of the changes you've noticed are simply due to the fact that we do read threads like this, and we do encourage users to send/share their feedback and examples of where we haven't hit the mark for them; and then actively try and improve that experience. We've recently streamlined this process by adding a feedback tool on the bottom right of the results page. If you feel we d…

Post by pgwhalen » Sat, Dec 19, 2015, 5:43 PM UTC

bobajeff wrote: post #86

bsbechtel wrote: post #55

Most 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…

Fundamentally what stops DDG from becoming just like Google, Bing and Yahoo when it does get as big as them? Remember how Facebook used to be all about user privacy?

Post by qwertyuiop924 » Sun, Dec 20, 2015, 9:57 PM UTC

SteveNuts wrote: post #164

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #163

I don't actually use DDG for privacy primarily. I use if for the instant answer and !bang goodness. If you're a developer, both of these are indispensable. If if the results don't work, you can always !g.

I appreciate what DDG is trying to do, but I found myself using !g way too often.

Post by qwertyuiop924 » Sun, Dec 20, 2015, 10:02 PM UTC

pilooch wrote: post #176

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #161

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... but without a company and a community of hackers constantly working to add more backends, more instant answers, more !bangs, and give you better results. So why would I use it?

You don't need a company for building a meta-search engine. And most importantly, if you value privacy, you want the whole meta-thing to be open source, always.