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The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privacy policy?

I saw a commenter on the linked site state that duckduckgo is great for programming, what does this mean?

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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So did 49 other sites.

You're obviously getting downvoted, so I probably will too, but I have to somewhat agree. But more specifically, why duckduckgo? Are they better than the other 49? Why is this submission rated number 1 on hn? I really don't get it.... One of 50 on a list? I work at one of the other 49, and didn't feel the need to submit when the list came out many many hours ago.... So, I guess I agree with the sentiment you express.…

From my perspective it's incredibly rare for a search engine to rival Google in a. the quality of the results and b. it's features.

DuckDuckGo generally has very good results and it's features (Privacy, Bang, etc.) and the like are good.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privacy policy? I saw a commenter on the linked site state that duckduckgo is great for programming, what does this mean?

The best reason for me is the quality. Between the disambiguation feature and the lack of spam and crappy sites, DDG is really good at finding what you want it to.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

#14
Great work DDG and yegg! I love DDG and have been using it for well over a year. The quality is just so good that anytime I get on computer set to search Google by default, I only get through a few searches before I'm compelled to head over to DDG.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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post #9

So did 49 other sites.

You're obviously getting downvoted, so I probably will too, but I have to somewhat agree. But more specifically, why duckduckgo? Are they better than the other 49? Why is this submission rated number 1 on hn? I really don't get it.... One of 50 on a list? I work at one of the other 49, and didn't feel the need to submit when the list came out many many hours ago.... So, I guess I agree with the sentiment you express.…

I can see from your comment that you honestly don't understand why DDG is the #1 post on HN right now, so I'll answer it honestly.

You don't say which company you work for in this comment.

You don't use your real name in your HN profile.

You're not giving us a way to connect and root for you.

If you were more open. If you openly talked about your company and taught us what you learned, you'd give us a way to feel connected to you and your company. Then we'd probably all root for you too.

Give us a chance to get to know you and relate to you.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privacy policy? I saw a commenter on the linked site state that duckduckgo is great for programming, what does this mean?

Do some programming related searches on DDG and you'll see the difference. Google gives me a list of links, DDG gave me a function definition and description from a language manual... on the result page.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

#17

I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privacy policy? I saw a commenter on the linked site state that duckduckgo is great for programming, what does this mean?

The best reason for me is the quality. Between the disambiguation feature and the lack of spam and crappy sites, DDG is really good at finding what you want it to.

In some domains. Whenever I give it a go, as soon as I turn to work it fails me (work is math for me).

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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How many of you are using it as your default search engine? I am. I don't think it's as good as Google, but I think it's good enough, some things are useful, like the quick links, and at least the user interface is cleaner, there is no stupid auto-complete etc.
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