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Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by noobquestion81 »

mcv wrote: post #219
noobquestion81 wrote: post #140

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I 100% agree with the reddit experience - it takes like 4 taps just to get to the #%!* page. No I don’t want your app shoved down my throat on every load. It has completely ruined reddit for me on mobile. Just show me ads if you need to and leave me alone.

My impression is that Reddit, Twitter and Quora are completely broken on mobile. My only possible conclusion is that these companies don't care about mobile users. Or at least not about casual mobile users who don't have the app installed. (I'm certainly not going to install a separate app for every website I visit; I already have a browser for that.)

I find twitter to be quite usable in mobile safari. I have the app too, but usually find myself still browsing in safari.

Quora is just a broken site right now, mobile or not.

reddit OTOH still seems to work okay on desktop. For a plaintext discussion forum that I prefer to read anonymously, theyve reaaaally screwed the pooch on mobile. I aboid reddit links whenever possible now, which is... sad.

Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by Mauricio_ »

pkamb wrote: post #137

I switched my iPhone to Duck Duck Go over the last few days simply because I hate hate HATE getting linked to Reddit AMP pages from Google. Reddit (and Stack Exchange) pages are what I use most to find honest discussions about some topic. Very convenient to use those results to filter through the blogspam. Reddit's AMP pages are especially bad, with multiple annoying pop-ups that don't get cookied when you dismiss th…

IMO I find the regular mobile version of Reddit as bad as the AMP. I just ended installing an unofficial app (boost) for whenever I wanna browser Reddit on mobile.

Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by godelski »

Thorrez wrote: post #222
godelski wrote: post #154

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There's also a difference between reskinning a search engine and aggregating other engines' results with your own.

Sure, and AFAIK Google does neither of those, so it would be wrong to say "Google does similar things".

> AFAIK Google does neither of those

> it would be wrong to say "Google does similar things"

This does not follow.

It also isn't what I was suggesting, but it would surprise me if Google didn't look at what Bing and Yahoo were doing (and DDG).

Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by godelski »

Kiro wrote: post #208
godelski wrote: post #107

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"Uses" is a weird word here. Because some people are suggesting that DDG is a reskin of Bing. But if we look at what DDG says[0], they talk about it the same way they talk about Stack Overflow. No one is crazy enough to say that DDG is a reskin of SO. What they are actually saying is that they are aggregating results. Which I don't understand why that would be a bad thing. [0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sour…

Money quoute right here: "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing." SO and the other 400 sources are only used for instant boxes and other widgets. The real organic search results are all from Bing.

Full quote

> In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

I'm not sure where you're getting

> The real organic search results are all from Bing.

That paragraph __DOES NOT__ say that

Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by wayneftw »

pkamb wrote: post #230
bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #226

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The “aA” in the address bar

So you set that for google.com, and then zoom in to see the non-mobile SERP every time? And non-mobile Google never links to AMP? I was hoping there was a setting for the results domain that disabled AMP.

You used to be able to double tap to zoom very easily but somehow that does not work as well anymore in iOS 13. Now when you do it, it selects the text as well as zooming.

Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by teh_klev »

harry8 wrote: post #86
teh_klev wrote: post #19

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> M$ Hello, 1990's Slashdot called and would like its tired old '$' satire back.

M$ would like their tired old 1990s business practises back, oh wait they never left. Just like the M$ shorthand which we see less simply becuase we talk about them less. It's reputation they fully earned. You can write "Microsoft" in full whenever you like if you prefer too. I think it's pretty reasonable to casually express contempt at every opportunity for any business that puts money vastly further ahead of ethic…

My friend, I think you missed the sarcasm and possibly some satire in my comment.

Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by wayneftw »

wayneftw wrote: post #235
pkamb wrote: post #230

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So you set that for google.com, and then zoom in to see the non-mobile SERP every time? And non-mobile Google never links to AMP? I was hoping there was a setting for the results domain that disabled AMP.

You used to be able to double tap to zoom very easily but somehow that does not work as well anymore in iOS 13. Now when you do it, it selects the text as well as zooming.

OK, correction: something I just figured out today is that you can actually set the zoom level for a given site as well now. So I set it to like 50% for Google and now I get the desktop version zoomed in properly whenever I search.

Re: Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

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Post by Kiro »

godelski wrote: post #234
Kiro wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Money quoute right here: "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing." SO and the other 400 sources are only used for instant boxes and other widgets. The real organic search results are all from Bing.

Full quote > In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and…

The paragraph clearly says that.

> more traditional links in the search results

It's super obvious to me what that refers to - the actual search results. The rest is just fluff.

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