DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by Aaronmacaron » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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Post by drocer88 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

How does DuckDuckGo do ads? Do they contract this out or manage it internally?

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Post by jagger27 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

A few dozen of those were mine! For geographically local stuff I have to use !g unless I get really specific with my search term (which is understandable). But for most other things DDG is good enough.

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Post by obilgic » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

Looking at different website's google analytics, I can tell that DDG has been picking up last 12 months. Possibly cuz of all FB, TWTR, GOOG privacy chatter.

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Post by Dig1t » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

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Post by bargl » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

Dig1t wrote: post #5

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

I've been using DDG for a while now as my primary search. I've found it does a much more literal searches, but doesn't always interpret the intent of my sentence as well as Google does.

I find myself using the !g at times when I can tell that the search didn't work as well as what I've seen on Google, but it's become much less frequent.

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Post by dmje » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

Dig1t wrote: post #5

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

lol, I came here to post something snarky along the lines of "...of which 95% are !g" but you beat me to it and did it in a nicer way too :-)

And yes, me too - I do love DDG, very happy user.

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Post by kleebeesh » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

I wonder how many of those are "!g" queries? I've tried very hard to adopt duckduckgo but it just doesn't cut it, especially for technical topics.

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Post by yoran » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

Dig1t wrote: post #5

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

Same here. I find myself doing that a lot... My experience is that Google's search results are superior to DDG's.

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Post by ravedave5 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:48 PM UTC

I've been switched to DDG for about 4 months now. I am loving the Ads I get in youtube now that google doesn't know what I am interested in they have noting to do with anything I care about. It's wonderful. DDG still has a way to go for really technical queries. I just can't get the same results about this error or that in Java. Until then I'm 100% DDG for personal and 100% google for work.