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Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by RandomTisk »

Good, now do something about shady websites at the top of most of my searches with DDG.

For instance, search for any late model car and you'll find a slew of websites like 2020-make-model.com or 2021modelmake.com etc. These sites look like they're all generated from a similar template with minor changes, with some real pictures along with short poorly written articles that are completely useless, at best they're speculative. They're just good enough to get into the top search results but don't actually provide consumers with any useful information.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by mattmanser »

FabHK wrote: post #203
mattmanser wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DDG is terrible at any location type search and extremely US centric. You can switch to country mode but then it stops including loads of results. A perfect example is when you search for a product or book or something. Without the switch, it returns the company website and amazon.com, the latter being utterly useless and irrelevant to anyone outside the US. But if you turn the switch on, the company website disappea…

Well, as DDG doesn't track you, you'll have to provide it a bit more context, such as the city you'd like to conduct the search for (or language or country), either in the search query itself, or using the switch displayed conveniently on top of every page of search results. I don't find that too onerous. Conversely, I find it annoying when Google gives me Swedish results, just because my VPN happens to route through…

I already explained the switch doesn't work.

While you might enjoy fiddling with your search engine every single time you want to do a location search, the vast majority of users don't and won't.

They've got to solve the problem of location searches if they want to move from being a fiddly niche product to a mainstream Google competitor.

I want them to because I would like to see them have wide spread adoption.

As well as change the stupid name.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by eliashaddad »

reaperducer wrote: post #224
elwell wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Vimium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

If someone is using the duck for privacy, I should hope they're not using Google's Chrome and Chrome store.

Vimium also works in FF. I am using it right now.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by TheOperator »

nbrempel wrote: post #3

Over the past 5 years I’ve tried DDG several times. Each time except the last I wanted to stick with it but the results simply didn’t stand up to what I’d see on Google. About 6 months ago (a year? I can’t remember) I switched and haven’t looked back. Now, when I look at google, the results actually look less relevant. As well, the ads on Google have become very obnoxious. I don’t feel like I’m being served the best…

I've had the same experience with me basically tossing in the towel with DDG because my need for efficiency outweighed my need for privacy. It seems like Google is systemically showing more crap in advertisements, making it harder to distinguish between ads and genuine search results, and their advantage is dwindling. That and it's just annoying to be sending information to Google as a default from a privacy point of view.

Maybe I should give Bing another go?

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by sdrothrock »

coryfklein wrote: post #228
sdrothrock wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an offshoot discussion and I have nothing against DDG or bang commands -- just presenting another side of convenient searches. > I know Firefox had install-your-own search plugins forever, but the total lack of friction of typing “!yt badgerbadgerbadger” to get specifically YouTube results was fantastic. I find "use your own search" to be much less friction than going through DDG since it takes me right to re…

Wait if I browse Amazon Japan will I find like, different and better things?

Different things, definitely.

Better? Depends on what you need!

I use Amazon Japan because I live here, though.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by skinnymuch »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #174
frank2 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft could decide to terminate their access to Bing APIs at any time resulting in DDG’s immediately losing most of their users. DDG does not have their own crawler or index.

DuckDuckGo do have their own crawler (DuckDuckBot), and they augment their results with other search providers other than Bing, including Yandex.

It’s not augmenting when almost all their results are from Bing. Most people on HN seem to try to spin it that way. Which isn’t correct.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by kandeel4411 »

paulintrognon wrote: post #158
grimgrin wrote: post #29

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There's a thing I wish FF had that Chrome has had for a long, long time (an older comment of mine): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20056174 re: ease of searching within sites and building that availability (of sites) up

I don't understand the behavior your are talking about. I tried in Google Chrome and could not figure it out. In Chrome's address bar, you type the name of a site (say reddit.com), then tab, then some keywords, and that does a google search for your keywords inside reddit.com?

google had this capability for a long time, if you want to search for a result in a specific site, you need to type in the search site:www.reddit.com. i.e: " some error site:www.stackoverflow.com"

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by abathur »

tdhttt wrote: post #85

Does DDG have anything special that could metigate the current SEO madness?

I don't keep up with SEO trends, but if you can spare a one-sentence summary or a link: I'm curious what fits under the umbrella of current SEO madness?
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