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Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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No, it's a thousand thousand (roman numeral). In finance, using MM and MMM is quite common (although bn is often preferred over MMM).

yeah, I am in finance. At the bank I used to work at we'd use $1M for $1,000 and not allowed to use $1K.

That seems like a misunderstanding waiting to happen. $10M is 10,000,000 to me but only 10,000 if you work in finance??

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Recently switched over to DuckDuckGo on all my devices. Tried to do the same thing several years ago and found it didn't really work out, but this time around it is so much better, both when it comes to speed and results. If anyone has doubts because they tried it years ago, I'd say go for it again.

Have they since reduced their dependency on Bing for search results? I feel that, while that's the case, there is no point in switching.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Hey graphitezepp, We do have some of those tools, at DuckDuckGo they are called "Instant Answers." For example the query: "2 lb to kg" will bring you to this results page https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2+lb+to+kg&ia=answer You can see all our Instant Answers here: https://duck.co/ia If something isn't triggering for you - let us know with the feedback tool on the site! Disclaimer: DDG staff.

If you could get a "within the past year" search filter it would make me the happiest developer in the world. :)

+1 (million) It's one of the few things that takes me back to Google (others being !gi & !gm).

Get that 'in last year' filter already, DDG. I think I've complained about this through feedback before.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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I don't understand what's the difference between Google and DuckDuckGo when all of my traffic is going through Comcast and AT&T anyway. There's no privacy.

Unless AT&T/Comcast are somehow MITMing your SSL connections (unlikely), then your search terms are all encrypted and all the ISPs know is that you are using DuckDuckGo.

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Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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What's with this person's writing style? I've never seen so many literary tics in one place. "In short", 14 usages. Almost every sentence starts with a prepositional phrase like "In fact...", "Yet...", "However..." Confusing sentence structure like "How would have the net looked like?" It's so irritating to read.

I would say it is due to him not being a native speaker; just guessing tho.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Out of interest: what is the reason/are the reasons that made you switch?

I started feeling like I had all my eggs in the same basket. Google has my email, it knows where I want to go and when (Google Maps), it translates stuff for me, and it knows what I search for. While it doesn't really affect me that Google has all this information, I've become more and more uncomfortable with the fact that they do. So I figured if I had a choice of two search engines, where I get satisfying results i…

Any centralized efforts for this kind of thing? I'd like the same..
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