DuckDuckGo included in Opera • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera

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Post by darkstar999 » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 11:10 PM UTC

naner wrote: post #24

fredugolon wrote: post #21

While this is certainly an impressive feat, I've not found myself impressed with DuckDuckGo's results. I love the principles of having search results be free of personal information but, for a search provider that essentially collects and organizes other search engine's results, I always find myself back at Google. Often times the result I wanted was as many as 4 or 5 pages back, whereas with Google it's usually in t…

I've switched to using DDG in FireFox for the past couple weeks. It works fine for 80% of searches and occasionally surprises me with the zero-click box, but the other 20% of the time I have to use Google.

If you can't find what you are looking for on DDG, just slap a !g on the query and you go straight to google. This slight inconvenience for some searches is outweighed by the power of !bangs and the zero click info.

Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera

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Post by vicngtor » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 11:28 PM UTC

vicngtor wrote: post #7

Pardon me for my ignorance, isn't this somewhat considered to be some form of anti-trust behavior? If not, why does Google Chrome ask you to pick Google, Bing or Yahoo at the first use?

Really? Downvoting me for asking a question in possibly the most polite and non-ignorant manner?

I know this is hacker-news, but do you guys really have to get into this anti-big company behavior?

Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera

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Post by junktest » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 5:01 AM UTC

Hey, what's the point of DuckDuckGo when you have the NOTORIOUS FACEBOOK TRACKING CRAP in the page http://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-in-opera and the forums ? see http://nikcub.appspot.com/facebook-re-enables-controversial-... and http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201 http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

defeats the intent and reputation of DuckDuckGo.

Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 10:49 AM UTC

junktest wrote: post #43

Hey, what's the point of DuckDuckGo when you have the NOTORIOUS FACEBOOK TRACKING CRAP in the page http://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-in-opera and the forums ? see http://nikcub.appspot.com/facebook-re-enables-controversial-... and http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201 http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html defeats the intent and reputation of DuckDuckGo.

Zoho runs our forums. I'll investigate and see what can be done. I saw your post on duck.co as well.

Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 3:34 PM UTC

asadotzler wrote: post #29

fleaflicker wrote: post #26

Can you shed any light on the deal terms? That search box is a major source of revenue for browsers. Did you undercut the other search engines? I know it's sensitive business information but any information you can provide would be great.

There's no way DDG can outbid Google or Bing. Also, it's not the default search where all the money is so they probably didn't have to beat out the big dogs to get into the list.

Surely the minute DDG starts costing them revenue then Google, et al., will simply cut them off from using their search results (eg via !) and substantially reduce the utility of DDG?

Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera

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Post by viraptor » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

afdssfda wrote: post #34

k33n wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, a company that's just starting to build brand awareness should really just up and change their name. Brilliant.

Well, it sucks. Better to fix something that sucks early on.

Definitely. The name sucks. It sucks just as much as other crazy names that make no sense... like GoDaddy - who would ever use a company like that? Sounds like an escort service. Or Yahoo. Or Google. Those names just don't make sense and should be changed ;)