DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by OscarCunningham » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

yoran wrote: post #9

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.

One factor you might not be thinking about is that if you use DDG first then you're getting a biased sample. You only try Google when DDG fails. So you see some times when Google succeeded where DDG failed, but you don't notice the times when DDG succeeded but Google would have failed.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by Airyleech » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

ravedave5 wrote: post #10

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.

I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by yabones » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:53 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #11

To the webmasters here on HN: Do you see this reflected in higher user numbers coming from DuckDuckGo over time? I run a website too. Let me check the stats... So according to Google Analytics over the last 30 days, 0.7% of my visitors came from DDG. Not bad. That is more then half of Bing, from which 1.2% of my visitors come. Over time, the DuckDuckGo trend does not look as exponential as in their chart though. More…

From the last 30 days:

>1k - Google

65 - DDG

20 - Bing

6 - Startpage

1 - Yandex

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by rosywoozlechan » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

Airyleech wrote: post #22

ravedave5 wrote: post #10

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.

I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.

I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by irrational » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:54 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 as my sole search engine for years. I didn’t even know !g was a thing.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by ronnier » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

I’m using ddg, pihole, unbound, ublock, signal. Deleted twitter, Facebook. Looking to move away from google.

Things just feel, cleaner this way. Still a long way to go

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by Aperocky » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

Airyleech wrote: post #22

ravedave5 wrote: post #10

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.

I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.

+1 to this. I haven't seen ads for years until I switched to M1 macs and had to use safari for a while.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by wyck » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

guilhermetk wrote: post #19

After a few failed attempts to migrate from Google as my default search engine due to poor results, a couple of months ago, I decided to give DDG another try. Been using daily since, I don't even remember what Google is. Not sure if the service did improve that much or what, but I'm glad I could move on. Youtube, you are next.

I think something improved, I used to switch back and forth probably used 80% Google, but know I now use DDG about 80% of the time.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by Tokkemon » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

ronnier wrote: post #26

I’m using ddg, pihole, unbound, ublock, signal. Deleted twitter, Facebook. Looking to move away from google. Things just feel, cleaner this way. Still a long way to go

Great, do you want a cookie?

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by pea » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

This is slightly off-topic, but I wonder why duckduckgo don't try and acquire a domain like ddg.com -

It sounds minor but I find it a hard domain to type for trying out a search (when google isn't giving me what I want), whereas if it was ddg.com I'd probably jump to it more as an alternative. Maybe I am just incredibly lazy, though.