Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

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Post by kjhughes » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
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Post by JeremyBanks » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 2:56 PM UTC

:s/DuckDuckGo/Bing

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Post by SpikeDad » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 2:56 PM UTC

Why must everything be a "company" killer? There's room in markets for choices. I think DDG is providing a good choice for folks. And having Apple data behind them isn't just potatoes.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 2:57 PM UTC

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Post by debacle » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 2:58 PM UTC

DDG is my default search. It's good for 85% of my searches. Its video and maps search clearly lag behind Google (mostly from a UI standpoint). It needs to find a better balance between shepherding privacy and UX. Most local search is weak, even if I enter in my city/state.

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Post by harveywi » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 3:01 PM UTC

DuckDuckGo is a heel.

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Post by the_other_guy » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

here comes the daily DDG shill post, Weinberg should tell his boys to slow down a bit, this is too much

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Post by tombert » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

I started using DDG as my default search engine about 6 months ago, and for 95% of the searches I do it's totally fine.

I don't know why people think that DDG needs to "stop" Google; did people think that Lycos and Infoseek and Yahoo couldn't coexist back in the 90's? I think it's good that both companies have some competition from each other.

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Post by MarsAscendant » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

SpikeDad wrote: post #3

Why must everything be a "company" killer? There's room in markets for choices. I think DDG is providing a good choice for folks. And having Apple data behind them isn't just potatoes.

> Why must everything be a "company" killer?

I wonder if it's the fact that...

1. ...the current idea of superiority is absolute domination on the market (see: monopoly),

2. ...the age we live in promotes being only the BEST and the most AWESOME, without ever giving chance to the average and the mildly-good, which may not shine as brightly but does its job well,

3. ...there's unduly competition on the market – not just your healthy capitalist "We sell better 'cause we make better products, so step aside", but something more antagonistic on a more... personal? level,

or all of it, to some degree.

I could be biased on number three, given that I'm quite sensitive to antagonism in general. It does seem to me that, while there's no malvertisement (no one's saying "My competitors are shit, we're light-years ahead"), everyone seems to try and trump others in spirit.

Nah, probably not.

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Post by verelo » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

SpikeDad wrote: post #3

Why must everything be a "company" killer? There's room in markets for choices. I think DDG is providing a good choice for folks. And having Apple data behind them isn't just potatoes.

I recently switched my homepage to be ddg. Most of the time it’s pure annoyance, returning unrelated results and never giving nice top of page summaries. I really didn’t want it to be this way, but most of the time (I’m pretty sure 2/3 at least) i have to revert back to google.