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On a side note: anyone else think Apple will eventually buy DDG?
I use DDG by default. If I am not satisifed I simply prepend !g to my query. The bangs feature is really useful to me personally since it supports so many sites. https://duckduckgo.com/bang My only complaint is that it's noticeably slower than Google
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.
But having said that, it is very annoying that they put a large nagging notification on the top right of the screen asking to switch to it as it's default.
If I want to do that I will do it myself thank you. I never figured out why webpages do this kind of thing (i.e. pop up a newsletter subscription form blocking the whole article). It just pisses off the users. It's actually the main reason DDG is not my default search engine.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...
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.
Google will have its comeuppance one day too. It may not look like that right now, but back in the day Sears, too, had everything, and look at them today.
again, Weinberg, the founder of DDG, has been exploiting HN and all major internet communities to promote his product. Most of what you see as unplanned posts and discussions about DDG really aren't
Please don't repost flagged comments. You've been breaking the guidelines way too much, so if this doesn't change we'll ban the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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history has mostly shown a zero-sum game when it comes to search. Didn’t all of those other search engines you listed die off? Even Bing has been mostly irrelevant in comparison to Google. Also a lot of DDG users came over because they were unhappy with some of Google’s practices. Therefore it’s natural for them to want to justify their decision as a good choice by hoping the rest of the world comes to the same concl…
You can get anonymized Google results on DDG by prefixing the search with "!g" https://duckduckgo.com/bang
Ad supported services are fine, targeted ads that require ever more invasive spying on your users on behalf of your advertising customers are not.
People said the same thing about Microsoft/IE when microsoft leveraged their dominant OS position to take over the browser market. But once google search became just as important or even more important than the Windows itself, they leveraged their search platform to take over the browser market with chrome.
For now, google is cleverly leveraging it's search/android/chrome platforms to block competition and maintain it's dominant position. But eventually, another product/platform will arise that will knock google off its pedestal. Maybe even anti-trust lawsuits will help like it did with ending the Windows-IE monopoly.