I don't use DDG because it just uses Yahoo under the hood. I tried to find a link but seems to be deleted by a DDG bot on redit and the page on their own site declaring the news has been overwritten. It's just Yahoo in a trenchcoat targeting the #1 concern with Google with some new marketing slogans.
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
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Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#62DDG is my default on my devices, but at this point I've just defaulted to !g-ing every search query just because of how often DDG is not up to the mark. I like the convenience of those Google quick answer box excerpts. And DDG is TERRIBLE for anything remotely regional, and I don't expect it to be fixed anytime in the next decade because I currently live in what's technically a third-world country, so I doubt they'll…
Yup. My experience has been similar. My DDG's results when searching for programing related errors has also been consistently worse than Google.
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Not a lot because of privacy, something about that company ticks me off in terms of privacy. Ditto, I just want something that isn't Google. That company has too many fingers in too many pies. DuckDuckGo isn't more private. That is like when Google was serious about the Don't Be Evil slogan - there is nothing technically stopping them and sooner or later principles get worn down by reality (commercial, political or…
I could be incorrect in my assumption here so please let me know: I assume as a user of DDG that they aren't collecting data on me. However back when Google was following their motto and young, they WERE still collecting data, weren't they? If that's true (IF) then that would make this an unfair comparison. If DDG eventually erodes their morals and stops caring about privacy then I could just stop using them and they…
I think that comparing DDG to a young google is an awful comparison and nigh on useless. DDG's reputation for privacy is they're selling point, and they know they would be found out quickly if they do surreptitious stuff because many eyes are on them and would love to nail them to the wall for reneging on the promise to keep searches private. The same logic applies so that they only use search related ads and not tracking/unique ID ads.
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#64I switched to DDG in 2017 on desktop and in 2019 on mobile. I still revert 1 in 500 searches back to Google since the results aren’t as good. That said, I wouldn’t trade better results to lose the benefit of increased privacy. I also use PI Hole to block tracking at the network level, use UBlock Origin at the browser level, and use Mozilla containers on Firefox to silo my social media accounts so they can’t track my…
Never revert to google, use one of the google proxies like startpage.
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#65I don't use DDG because it just uses Yahoo under the hood. I tried to find a link but seems to be deleted by a DDG bot on redit and the page on their own site declaring the news has been overwritten. It's just Yahoo in a trenchcoat targeting the #1 concern with Google with some new marketing slogans.
DDG gets most of its sources from Bing.
They don't mention Yahoo, so it's probably only a minor source, if even used at all.
See this help article: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#66I noticed several billboard ads for duckduckgo in my town since last year. Over the years, they also made their message clear, it is all about privacy, not bangs, not applets, or anything else duckduckgo is also good at. I don't know how they advertise in other media but clearly, there is a serious marketing campaign going on, and it looks successful. That can explain the growth.
That feels fishy somehow... how exactly are they paying for the advertisement? DDG is free to use, which usually means customers (their data) are the product. Is there an in-depth analysis somewhere of what exactly is their business model (where is the money coming from)?
DDG shows ads relevant to your search query.
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#67Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is based and hosted in the U.S., and thus subject to U.S. court-and-gag orders. Just something to be aware of.
Do you have any proof they keep records of searchs and logs of ips/UINs for those searches?
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or those things are not true. They’re definitely not sources. Let’s try again.
Ugh, hunter Biden laptop is indeed completely acknowledged fact at this point by all sides https://news.yahoo.com/york-times-quietly-deletes-claim-0218... https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/politics/hunter-biden-laptop/... https://nypost.com/2021/09/21/the-hunter-biden-laptop-is-con... https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep... One Hillary Clinton’s campaign attorneys have been charged in connection…
Nothing here is about Google or censorship.
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#69For day to day searching i use duckduckgo by default on every device. Not a lot because of privacy, something about that company ticks me off in terms of privacy. I like duckduckgo’s interface and I feel they genuinely put a lot of effort to ensure people have a great experience using their search engine. Whether its their !bang feature or integration with apple maps or their various themes. (Heck even their no js, s…
Since when is Apple Maps a positive thing? Did I miss something?
Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021
#70For day to day searching i use duckduckgo by default on every device. Not a lot because of privacy, something about that company ticks me off in terms of privacy. I like duckduckgo’s interface and I feel they genuinely put a lot of effort to ensure people have a great experience using their search engine. Whether its their !bang feature or integration with apple maps or their various themes. (Heck even their no js, s…
> I like duckduckgo’s interface and I feel they genuinely put a lot of effort to ensure people have a great experience using their search engine.
Yeah, it seems like DDG is the only one that has any decent customization options.
Custom theming is nice but not mandatory for me, the biggest ones for me are Center Alignment and Page Width set to Wide. It's not 1995 anymore, we have wide screens and having the search results showed in to one side of the screen while the other half is mostly empty looks awful. And I think it would be pretty easy to implement those few settings, especially for Google but it's not like they care, it took them over 20 years to implement dark mode.