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Re: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

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Post by _delirium »

tansey wrote: post #127
reasonattlm wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I redirect to Google for my site search at Fight Aging! at the moment because it returns far better results than DDG, and with my ~8000 posts and countless topics doing a great job with my own custom search just doesn't make economic sense. If DDG could do as well as Google for the archives I'd switch in an instant; I prefer the idea of sending users somewhere other than Google for queries that may involve medical co…

At least you get indexed by DDG. Curvio has been live for 2 months now, Google has indexed over 2000 of our pages, and we're the #1 result for over 100 different Google queries. Meanwhile, DDG still thinks you're searching for "Cuervo" [1] and has not even indexed our homepage, which has hundreds of backlinks at this point. [1] http://duckduckgo.com/?q=curvio

I think that might boil down to Bing apparently not having indexed you. From what I can tell, DDG gets a decent proportion of its search results from the Yahoo BOSS API, which I believe is these days mostly feeding Bing data.

The results there look pretty similar, anyway: http://www.bing.com/search?q=curvio

Re: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

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Post by Craiggybear »

Treading carefully here ... I love DDG and find it yields far more useful results than anything else.

Besides, I like not getting tracked all the time and I can switch off ads without needing any extensions. That in my view is a very civilised set of options and the rest of the Internet should follow by example.

Re: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

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Post by w1ntermute »

geoffw8 wrote: post #9

Wow, thats a great curve. Just wanted to throw in my personal experience with DuckDuckGo, and it doesn't necessarily reflect on DuckDuckGo specifically, however: After seeing them pop up here once or twice quite recently I thought I'd give it a go, I opened up preferences in Chrome and switched my default search over to DDG. It felt good, made a nice change but was certainly a bit "odd". I found what I wanted, most o…

> Specifics aside, knowing that Google is far superior in their results makes it real difficult to use another search engine really, extra features (!so etc) or no extra features.

Just so you know, you can use keyword searches to get this same functionality directly in your browser for any search engine of your choice.

Re: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

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Post by visarg »

I like their attitude, but...

it needs more speed and better results, though using Bing as a source this might not be possible. The lack of image, news and video search is a problem too. Actually, I use quite often book search, scholar and maps too. In order to be a complete search solution, you need more than web search today.

Re: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

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Post by Wilduck »

BCM43 wrote: post #105
Wilduck wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Debian actually. It's now GNU IceCat though. The reason they changed the name is because Debian backports some security features to Firefox, and Mozilla denies the use of the Firefox branding to unofficial builds of the software.

It's now GNU IceCat though Are you sure? http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=...

Yikes, good call. I confused GNU IceCat[1], which was formerly GNU Iceweasel with Debian's rebranding of Firefox, which is still known as Iceweasel[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...

Re: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

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Post by iusable »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #144
iusable wrote: post #122

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I LOVE your work. So happy to get simple, clean & shareable results again! Any chance of integrated media galleries? I think Bing & Google are really effin this up.

Can you be more specific as to what you mean/want in this area?

Right now when I search for something like 'reddit logo png' I only get links no inline embedded images in a gallery like format.

Would be awesome to Not leave DDG and preview the image (jpg/png/gif) results in a gallery.

Re: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

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Post by mike_ivanov »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #59

Thank you all! (I'm the founder.) In response to a lot of the comments here, please know that two major things we're working on are better programming queries ( https://duckduckgo.com/tech.html -- one of my new favorites https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+picasa ) and speed. For speed, just this week we upgraded our whole caching system, which should significantly speed up a lot of queries. I'd be interested to…

Thank you. You're awesome.
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