The only downside to DuckDuckGo is that the results it gives for some searches of friends names are extremely stale pulling up old mailing list posts from 2006/2007 rather than showing their new content from their personal blog. There seems to be a ridiculous amount of noise mixed in with signal which makes it a no-go for me or for even suggesting it to my family.
Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo
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#12Is it like a Tor for search engine where all the searches are performed by DuckDuckGo, keeping the users away from tracking? I tried searching some terms and it gives results pretty fast.I found no ads in their search results,wondering how these guys are getting money to share their revenue with Linux Mint and also pay MS for using Bing data. Making me doubt they might push favorable content up.
There's an ad on the side.
Re: Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo
#13Is it like a Tor for search engine where all the searches are performed by DuckDuckGo, keeping the users away from tracking? I tried searching some terms and it gives results pretty fast.I found no ads in their search results,wondering how these guys are getting money to share their revenue with Linux Mint and also pay MS for using Bing data. Making me doubt they might push favorable content up.
There's an ad on the side.
yup there is a minimal ad on the side. I didn't appeared for the few queries I had tried (people names). I tried searching for a laptop and there came the ad on the side ;-)
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#14Since when do they use Bing? I thought they did their own indexing.
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#15Does DuckDuckGo pay for the Bing engine? And what happens if Microsoft tries to stop them from using it, or they put some limitations on it for 3rd parties?
What other options for backend besides Bing are there if one would like to do make a new search engine?
The Common Crawl index, already has 5bn ranked pages, and the data is open to everyone - http://www.commoncrawl.org/
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#16DuckDuckGo was also added to the Opera Browser, approx. 1 month ago. [1]
Anyone know how DuckDuckGo do monetization?
[1]: http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/2011/10/19/the-hidden-featur...
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#17Since when do they use Bing? I thought they did their own indexing.
My last information was that they used a combination of third party search APIs (Yahoo, Bing, Google) and producing their own search content.
By now, in terms of functionality[1], I mostly use DDG for the bangs, having set it as my default search engine in Firefox (keyword.URL in about:settings) so I can search using the URL bar. I caught myself doing ^T and typing "!w keywords" (to search wikipedia) on other people's computers more than once by now.
[1] I originally switched because I'm very privacy conscious, and that's still my most powerful argument for using DDG, but it's by far not the only strong argument for duckgo'ing instead of googling.
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#18My god, it's yet another piece of software called Mint. Stop the branding madness! Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the "please tell me what Linux Mint is" page. I ultimately resorted to Google. A conversion funnel tragedy.
> Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the "please tell me what Linux Mint is" page.
Yes, it's incomprehensible why so many companies: a) don't use their normal headers for the blog, or at least b) put a prominent link back to the homepage (like the logo, for instance).
However, when the blog is at http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 it is not a gigantic leap of thought to go check what might be at http://www.linuxmint.com/, from where it's one click to the about page.
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#19If anyone is interested in knowing how DuckDuckGo gets its results check:
http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
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#20Does DuckDuckGo pay for the Bing engine? And what happens if Microsoft tries to stop them from using it, or they put some limitations on it for 3rd parties?
What other options for backend besides Bing are there if one would like to do make a new search engine?
DDG uses Yahoo! Boss.
http://www.ysearchblog.com/2011/06/27/ydn-qa-with-duckduckgo...