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Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by stefantheard »

inetknght wrote: post #191
Fiaxhs wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth noting that the !g bang redirects you to encrypted .google.com, it's more secure but results are often different from a regular www.google.com search. It bugged me for a while not knowing why some queries returned unusual results. ( more here https://duck.co/forum/thread/2880/remove-the-encrypted-subdo... )

> linking to encrypted.google.com not only is not necessary but it prevents local search results from being displayed. e.g. no google.ro search results, only google.com I can only see this as a good thing. If I want local search results, I'll add local qualifiers like "USA", "Texas", "Houston"

That was an odd one to read, being in Houston. I thought somehow you added wildcards that were auto filled with the users location, I then realized that I'm an idiot.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by jondubois »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #30
jondubois wrote: post #29

DuckDuckGo is OK but they seem to be penalising single-page apps so my project websites rank low on DuckDuckGo but high on Google. So I can't support DuckDuckGo.

Maybe you need to do some SEO then.

As I said, my websites are doing well on Google that's all the SEO I care about and I'm not willing to sacrifice user experience. It shouldn't be difficult to index web apps these days... There are so many open source headless browsing tools/libraries available.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by richk449 »

mcbits wrote: post #223
GunlogAlm wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you'd have us call out every metaphor, turn of phrase, expression, hyperbole, etc., because it's imprecise or ambiguous?

Hyperbole, yes. Hyperbole is what's ruining the world today. Metaphors if they're really bad, sculpting intuition that's off by orders of magnitude.

"Hyperbole is what's ruining the world today."

Well played.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by Sargos »

bamboozled wrote: post #134
josinalvo wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> https://duck.co/help/results/sources "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex." I thought they where re-implementing search.. Are they "just" aggregating?

I recently spoke with Gabriel and his view was that they're going to continue to outsource / proxy / aggregate unless they need to implement their own search. Right now it's not worth the investment apparently.

Yeah because Search is an actual hard problem and putting up a proxy like DDG is not. DDG will never have any real value beyond that.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by puzzle »

AdamSC1 wrote: post #210
laser wrote: post #28

"Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a mosquito (this is not to emphasize; I’m actually making things better for DuckDuckGo)." Why would this guy go out of his way to say this metaphor is actually literally informative and generous towards DuckDuckGo while apparently having exerted no mental effort and being incorrect by orders of magnitude on his own data? If you're most generous to the writer, you get 1…

If you'd like to go by searches rather than visits: At DuckDuckGo we are averaging roughly 17 million searches a day right now (duckduckgo.com/traffic.html) Google says they did 2 trillion searches last year[1], and while usually their search metrics include Youtube, Google Maps and Gmail queries let's assume it was all searches. That'd be roughly 5.5 billion searches a day. So now we're talking ~1/322 or just shy of…

Since when search metrics include YT, Maps and... Gmail?!? Unless you're talking about universal search results, I've never seen the numbers for all those products conflated.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by Sargos »

guitarbill wrote: post #34
jondubois wrote: post #29

DuckDuckGo is OK but they seem to be penalising single-page apps so my project websites rank low on DuckDuckGo but high on Google. So I can't support DuckDuckGo.

Some might see this as a win for DuckDuckGo

People who like inaccurate search results?

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by DenisM »

AdamSC1 wrote: post #210
laser wrote: post #28

"Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a mosquito (this is not to emphasize; I’m actually making things better for DuckDuckGo)." Why would this guy go out of his way to say this metaphor is actually literally informative and generous towards DuckDuckGo while apparently having exerted no mental effort and being incorrect by orders of magnitude on his own data? If you're most generous to the writer, you get 1…

If you'd like to go by searches rather than visits: At DuckDuckGo we are averaging roughly 17 million searches a day right now (duckduckgo.com/traffic.html) Google says they did 2 trillion searches last year[1], and while usually their search metrics include Youtube, Google Maps and Gmail queries let's assume it was all searches. That'd be roughly 5.5 billion searches a day. So now we're talking ~1/322 or just shy of…

Or one honey badger. 35 pounds or so.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by wdn »

I will stick with Google for now. Google usually returns the result I wanted. Google's page is also cleaner.

But when DDG improve the search result, I will make a switch there.

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