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Are. . .you aware of some relationship between the two? I don't think I've ever heard of them being linked.
DuckDuckGo has a deal with Yandex to display search results from them on some searches. If you search for something in Russian, you'll see a "in partnership with Yandex" message in the corner of the search results page.
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Went to try it for a week to see if it was viable. Haven't looked back and have never needed to go to Google's search engine for a year now. Best feature is by far the Stack Overflow 'instant answers'!
I have it as my primary search engine now too, but I find myself constantly using !g because the results suck.
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Rant seems extremely strong - how about we go with well thought through set of opinions that the CEO of Duck Duck Go is rigorously applying to his product. I personally found his argument so persuasive I intend to set everything to DuckDuckGo again now.
I made the switch on all my devices about 6 weeks ago. I lasted 5 weeks. At least for quickly finding relevant programming documentation, I didn't think the results were on par with Google.
I like DDG, but claiming that their ads are based only on keywords is just not true. They are at least also based on location. I just tried "dishwasher" and it brings up ads in French from local stores. But this is natural, because without the location most ads would probably be meaningless. The question is then, how far can you go by using the information available only in the user's HTTP request? Can you use the us…
When you use it for ads, but don't store it, how do you prove to your advertisers that you are keeping their contracts and showing the ads to the right target group?
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I made the switch to DDG about 12 months ago for all devices. It has been an entirely positive experience.
Went to try it for a week to see if it was viable. Haven't looked back and have never needed to go to Google's search engine for a year now. Best feature is by far the Stack Overflow 'instant answers'!
Often with technical searches the DDG results seem better.
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Lest we not forget that DDG plainly refuses any external auditors to verify their claims of user privacy, despite having received a large investment recently and employing about 50 people (or more now) in full time. In this case, DDG asks users to have "faith" that their privacy is indeed being respected.
Not defending DDG but it is ridiculuos to ask for a company for auditing to probe their claims. There is no legal enforcement for that. If DDG lies and they are discovered they will loose their user base. It is enough with that.
It isn't a too wide far-fetched that DDG could be collecting all data in silence and once they have enough of it (or are big enough to survive losing a part of their user base) start capitalising off of it.
I don't trust DDG any more than I do trust Google. In fact I trust Google with their boatloads of great engineers (of which we have learned that they do have some sense of moral and ethics) more than a small company that could easily be forced to capitalise on their user-data because of their shallow pockets.
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While I use DDG as my default search engine I also never got the name.. I think the logo is fine but the name is beyond me.
...what? Did you never play duck-duck-go(/ose) as a child?
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Quora is a good place for product placement and is commonly used as such. In fact, I believe that’s Quora’s revenue generation model...
Hang on, do you think Quora is being paid to allow such answers, or that they allow them because controversial answers are popular ?
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When you use it for ads, but don't store it, how do you prove to your advertisers that you are keeping their contracts and showing the ads to the right target group?
Good question, but I think the pay-per-click model should solve it?