DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by rocky1138 » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:17 PM UTC

themihai wrote: post #66

dchuk wrote: post #43

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If you use it, and like it, why does the name matter anymore? Is it an embarrassment thing?

It's just too much to type.

I think it's been several years since I've actually visited duckduckgo.com. Modern browsers make it really easy to set DDG to your default search engine.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by kyrra » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:17 PM UTC

tdkl wrote: post #59

Is there any official reason why DDG isn't among the list of possible search engines on Google Chrome Android build ?

It will be there soon. Looks like all the changes to support this landed recently. Though it's not so much DDG being in the list, but the available search engines will be the last 5 search engines you visited.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=348360

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by throwaway91111 » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:18 PM UTC

JoelTheSuperior wrote: post #52

libraryatnight wrote: post #36

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Thank you for a great search engine! I swapped from Google as a default search to your guys' engine just shy of a year ago and haven't looked back. Keep up the great work :)

A thousand times this. Initially I wasn't a fan if I'm perfectly honest, but once I got my head around such brilliant things as the bang syntax I've been finding Google almost awkward to use by comparison. Being able to search Wikipedia with !w is brilliant.

This is built into most browsers--you don't need to forward the query through a third party.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:21 PM UTC

I don't appreciate ddg results much, but I realized not long ago the feeling of joy by knowing I'm not being tracked for any thing I search.

I can throw anything at it carelessly.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:23 PM UTC

lmedinas wrote: post #49

muninn_ wrote: post #37

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This is the biggest turn off for me for the service. I use it, because I like it, but I really don't like the name.

Have you tried ddg.gg ?

thx

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

rocky1138 wrote: post #71

themihai wrote: post #66

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It's just too much to type.

I think it's been several years since I've actually visited duckduckgo.com. Modern browsers make it really easy to set DDG to your default search engine.

Yeah but I often use other computers. I often thought about having a shorter name under elinks for instance.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by Perseids » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

AdamSC1 wrote: post #58

eganist wrote: post #53

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Google is basically a verb at this point. It's hard to tell people to DuckDuckGo it. GoDuck might be interesting. "GoDuck it."

You could return to the neutral non-branded term of 'search' it.

Even better: You can work an making "google" a generic term for searching – "I'm googling it on DuckDuckGo" – which increases awareness of other search engines and decreases the association of the common activity "googling" with the company "Google".

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by rodionos » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:27 PM UTC

What's interesting is that growth has accelerated since September 2016.

http://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/e8635882/13/

Any good reasons behind it?

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by csharpminor » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:33 PM UTC

muninn_ wrote: post #37

themihai wrote: post #33

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Did you consider changing the domain name?

This is the biggest turn off for me for the service. I use it, because I like it, but I really don't like the name.

I've been using DuckDuckGo for the past year and love it. But this also gets me. I've been trying to evangelize with my colleagues and friends and the whole duck thing makes it hard for them to take seriously. One friend said the logo reminded them of Aflac.

And then all of a sudden we're talking about a duck instead of why private search is important.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by cpeterso » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 6:39 PM UTC

AdamSC1 wrote: post #20

nerdponx wrote: post #5

I'm a professional data scientist. Apart from donating, how can I support the project? It's my default search engine everywhere now.

As some others have mentioned you can check out https://duckduckhack.com/ our open-source community that powers our Instant Answers (the answers that appear before the search results/ads). Our community has helped us pull in data from over 1100 sources to make amazing experiences. The value of this is that you can build out anything you are passionate about. It creates some great niche experiences. Maybe you want to…

I've had some problems with DDG's bang searches on some sites where the sites' search URLs moved or could use better search parameters. Where can users report broken bang searches or suggest better options?

DDG has a lot of open source code on GitHub. A list mapping bang search terms to site URLs could be maintained as a simple text file on GitHub so contributors could test them or suggest improvements.