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Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by BeetleB »

TheForumTroll wrote: post #195
BraveNewCurency wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The results may be good enough for plenty of folks, but I highly doubt they will ever be better than the big budget search engines. On the other hand, that is not the criteria for them to be successful, because they are already better on a different metric: Privacy. I find that 90% of my queries are just "who is that person?" or "what is that thing?". Those queries can be answered by DDG just as well as Google. So…

DDG users sound an awful lot like evangelists. You could do both privacy and good search results without using DDG: startpage.com You can also have at least as good privacy (better in my opinion) and better search results (again, in my opinion) with other search engines: qwant.com What is it those two examples doesn't have that DDG does have? The evangelist feel of DDG really turns me off and I'm sure it scares many…

No idea why you're getting downvoted - I've felt similarly about DDG - why do people prefer it so much over startpage?

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by figers »

Love using them, hopefully with this money they will finally implement the date filter to allow for the last year instead of just the last month. Very important when searching for the latest coding implementations of a new version.

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by dnautics »

arketyp wrote: post #142
newfocogi wrote: post #4

I have been using DDG for about a year now, although I had tried using it years ago. It works fine for simple queries( e.g. search name of company rather than typing out url). But I basically have !g programmed into my fingers for everything more complicated. Many times when I don't find the results I am looking for, I subconsciously assume that google would be able to find them. This is in comparison to when I canno…

I find that Google is actually losing ground as the all-seeing-eye-reference-objective-truth due to the increasingly tailored searches. I can no longer refer to a search query and expect a peer to see the same results as I do. This social bubble phenomenon, while no doubt convenient, is sometimes a burden, and with their stricter privacy policy DDG actually has some ground to gain here. Using DDG is more like tuning…

I will say that Google is better when searching for code help (probably because it feels that I'm a programmer) so if my query is likely to have an answer on SO or one of my coding forums, a !g gets appended almost reflexively now.

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by dotancohen »

amelius wrote: post #175
arketyp wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find that Google is actually losing ground as the all-seeing-eye-reference-objective-truth due to the increasingly tailored searches. I can no longer refer to a search query and expect a peer to see the same results as I do. This social bubble phenomenon, while no doubt convenient, is sometimes a burden, and with their stricter privacy policy DDG actually has some ground to gain here. Using DDG is more like tuning…

> I can no longer refer to a search query and expect a peer to see the same results as I do. You could try opening an incognito window, although it could still give different results based on geo location.

> based on geo location.

Or user agent, or screen resolution, or Accept-Encoding / Accept-Language headers, or installed fonts, or installed browser plugins detected, or Do Not Track settings.

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by couchand »

dnautics wrote: post #233
arketyp wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find that Google is actually losing ground as the all-seeing-eye-reference-objective-truth due to the increasingly tailored searches. I can no longer refer to a search query and expect a peer to see the same results as I do. This social bubble phenomenon, while no doubt convenient, is sometimes a burden, and with their stricter privacy policy DDG actually has some ground to gain here. Using DDG is more like tuning…

I will say that Google is better when searching for code help (probably because it feels that I'm a programmer) so if my query is likely to have an answer on SO or one of my coding forums, a !g gets appended almost reflexively now.

That's curious. I've always found that code searches are where DDG shines.

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by needle0 »

I've been lately trying to get myself accustomed to DDG, and while I appreciate the bang feature immensely, I find myself spending more and more time using !g to revert to Google Search. It probably has something to do with the fact that I search a lot in Japanese as well as English; While English search results are somewhat good, DDG's Japanese search results are just plain bad. I suspect the similar is also true with other non-English languages as well. Hope the new money gets spent on improving search results on non-English.

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by ams6110 »

newfocogi wrote: post #4

I have been using DDG for about a year now, although I had tried using it years ago. It works fine for simple queries( e.g. search name of company rather than typing out url). But I basically have !g programmed into my fingers for everything more complicated. Many times when I don't find the results I am looking for, I subconsciously assume that google would be able to find them. This is in comparison to when I canno…

I've used DDG as my main search site for a few years now. Every once in a while when I don't find what I want, I try !g and lately I find that Google didn't find anything usefully better. So now using !g is more like a last resort before giving up rather than an expectation that it will really help.

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by ams6110 »

BeetleB wrote: post #231
TheForumTroll wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DDG users sound an awful lot like evangelists. You could do both privacy and good search results without using DDG: startpage.com You can also have at least as good privacy (better in my opinion) and better search results (again, in my opinion) with other search engines: qwant.com What is it those two examples doesn't have that DDG does have? The evangelist feel of DDG really turns me off and I'm sure it scares many…

No idea why you're getting downvoted - I've felt similarly about DDG - why do people prefer it so much over startpage?

I use DDG and have never heard of startpage before. Checking it out.

Re: DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

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Post by MistahKoala »

Not bad for general queries, but still not suited to specific, local and timely queries - at least, in the UK, anyway. Even whilst searching with country-specific settings, most results tend to be American.

Also, I miss pagination of results pages :(

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