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Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by TekMol » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

pea wrote: post #30

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.

They own duck.com

I think most people are even lazier then you. They don't type domain names at all. They set their default SE to duckduckgo.com and then search via the url bar.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by analyte123 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

If DuckDuckGo / Bing ever approach the popularity level of Google, how will they not suffer similar pressure to manipulate their search results?

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by yabones » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

I've used DDG full-time for over two years now. I honestly don't miss Google.

Every time I use !g I'm reminded just how bad it's gotten. Between the SEO spam and ads I find myself scrolling at least halfway down the page to find anything even remotely relevant. I can't say that DDG always has the 'best' results, but at least they seem appropriate to what I'm searching for.

One thing I do wish DDG has is webmaster tools. I know they don't do their own indexing, but it would be nice to have a way to get performance & keyword data the way Google/Bing/Yandex etc present it.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by jjordan » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

I think and hope that this is just the beginning. We desperately need tech diversity in all sorts of verticals, and search and social media are at the top of the list, with AWS/Azure/GoogleCloud closely following. Jason Calacanis is saying as much today: https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1349482476612141056

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by eganist » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

Tokkemon wrote: post #29

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?

> Great, do you want a cookie?

Hey, this isn't productive. The parent comment provided a good opener for others to ask them their experience migrating away, etc, and that's the kind of discussion we often like to have around sharing our experiences with new or different tools.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by 6chars » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:58 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 don't even remember what Google is

If DDG has such severe memory-related side effects, I'm not sure I want to switch.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by tiborsaas » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:59 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.

> they have noting to do with anything I care about

Why is this good? For me personally, both FB and Google figured out that I'm into home renovation and all they keep recommending me is relevant stuff. So I consider it free research done for me :) Contractors, webshops, pretty images are all over my feed.

I even press accept cookies for webshops I want to see more of their competition :)

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by criley2 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:59 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

None of the things you mentioned are replacements for either Twitter or Facebooks core products.

A search engine, router level ad-blocker, browser-based adblocker and messaging app do not replace a public messageboard or a pseudo-public/pseudo-private messageboard/events service.

Actually maybe "unbound" is that because there's a bunch of projects with that name, so who knows.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by peterpost2 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

I switched back to google after using DDG for about half a year, DDG results are nice, but if you mix searches between different language you need to manually set the country for which you are searching, google does this automatically.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by simias » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:59 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 DDG as well but I went further and told Firefox to use a dedicated container for google domains. I also did it because they made Youtube really annoying to use when you're not logged in, so I made a burner account but it's only active inside this container and they can't track me around the web (at least, not with that).