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I am current taking the search engine for a spin and it has made a great first impression. I particularly like that instead of paging the search results it displays the results on demand using ajax. I prefer this interface because with less effort I see more results. I've found that with Google I tend to not to move past the first page and by doing that I probably miss out on information that may have been useful to…
I like Duck Duck Go. Mostly because, there is someone out there who is courageous enough to give it a go, single-handedly, into the search engine market. So props to him, I can support someone like him. Having said that. There can be too much of a good thing. I feel that HN is being used as an advertising platform to promote DDG, which in itself is not such a bad thing when there are major developments and exiting fe…
I'd rather see 10 more articles about DDG than one more about the ipad or fakestevejobs.
...because clearly, those are the only choices.
As long as we're throwing around false dichotomies, I'd rather see 10 more articles about the internals of a search engine than one more rah-rah post about DDG.
I like Duck Duck Go. Mostly because, there is someone out there who is courageous enough to give it a go, single-handedly, into the search engine market. So props to him, I can support someone like him. Having said that. There can be too much of a good thing. I feel that HN is being used as an advertising platform to promote DDG, which in itself is not such a bad thing when there are major developments and exiting fe…
Based on the information I have found about the project the only area I can see this competing is in the user experience (scrolling results, encrypted search etc). Maybe someone who knows more about the project can enlighten us.
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I'd rather see 10 more articles about DDG than one more about the ipad or fakestevejobs.
"I'd rather see 10 more articles about DDG than one more about the ipad or fakestevejobs." ...because clearly, those are the only choices. As long as we're throwing around false dichotomies, I'd rather see 10 more articles about the internals of a search engine than one more rah-rah post about DDG.
Gabriel could do one too if he feels like it.
Of course those are not the only two choices (there were three of them, buy hey, who is counting), but since they seem to be the most prevalent posts that irritate me I figured I'd put my personal preference out there. If you want a longer list I can provide one but I don't think it will make the point much clearer.
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"I'd rather see 10 more articles about DDG than one more about the ipad or fakestevejobs." ...because clearly, those are the only choices. As long as we're throwing around false dichotomies, I'd rather see 10 more articles about the internals of a search engine than one more rah-rah post about DDG.
That's really good, when will you post one? Gabriel could do one too if he feels like it. Of course those are not the only two choices (there were three of them, buy hey, who is counting), but since they seem to be the most prevalent posts that irritate me I figured I'd put my personal preference out there. If you want a longer list I can provide one but I don't think it will make the point much clearer.
Now you're just being petty. There are plenty of technical articles that languish in "new" every day -- I've submitted more than than a few, and I vote for many others.
An argument against other types of fanboy spam is not an argument for DDG fanboy spam.
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That's really good, when will you post one? Gabriel could do one too if he feels like it. Of course those are not the only two choices (there were three of them, buy hey, who is counting), but since they seem to be the most prevalent posts that irritate me I figured I'd put my personal preference out there. If you want a longer list I can provide one but I don't think it will make the point much clearer.
"That's really good, when will you post one?" Now you're just being petty. There are plenty of technical articles that languish in "new" every day -- I've submitted more than than a few, and I vote for many others. An argument against other types of fanboy spam is not an argument for DDG fanboy spam.
Just like patio11's stuff is a case study in how it is done, so is this, with one huge difference, I can't see myself ever buying a set of bingo cards but I can definitely see myself using a search engine, if only for comparison purposes.
I could say with just as much justification that I'd not like to ever hear a word about bingo cards again, but I don't think that is right because the bingo cards serve as an illustration on how to run a successful startup.
The other stuff is the fanboy stuff. And that I could do without, hence my preference for DDG articles.
But I promise I will write an article about the guts of a search engine, I built a small one about 5 years ago and maybe there are some interesting bits that warrant dissection.
Well ... they are now
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Google will not do that because it would cost them a fortune in missed ad impressions and clicks. This seems unnecessarily constraining. They already allow you change your preferences to see 100 results per search instead of the default. How does this fit with your logic? Certainly Google is very concerned with click-through on ads, but I'm not sure they'd be losing much if they allowed continuous scrolling. What per…
> They already allow you change your preferences to see 100 results per search instead of the default. How does this fit with your logic? That nobody except for a few geeks do it. Just like the 'I feel lucky' button. > Certainly Google is very concerned with click-through on ads, but I'm not sure they'd be losing much if they allowed continuous scrolling. What percentage of their revenue do you think they derive from…
Personally, I don't like the AJAX update approach. I'd much rather that a site just give me a long list of results, and allow me to scroll through them without loading delays. If I could set Google to return 1000 results, it would feel about right.