DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

To each his own, but I think the name is endearing and cute.

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine ever since the NSA fallout came, and the results are surprisingly usable for most common tasks. In some cases they feel better than Google because I'm seeing some useful sites that Google doesn't ordinarily show.

The only area where DuckDuckGo searches have been lacking for me is in finding useful technical articles and code results. Sometimes when I have to search for a complicated error message or research some programming problem to see how other people have approached it DDG will not work for me and I have to resort to Google or directly search Stackoverflow or something.

But it's already usable for the average person IMO.

Wow, now that's a spike. Kudos to DDG.

Aside from spying on you from every angle, Google is now unusable, almost everything on page one is ads, ads, ads and Google "content." http://news.yahoo.com/google-search-displays-only-13-organic... What a shame, they sold their soul for short term and temporary gains.

We should go a little out of our way to support new search engines, having so much power in one hand is too dangerous for the web and businesses.

From my experience, code search is not that bad. Usually the relevant SO posts are on top (maybe even "featured").

I've encountered this problem on obscure code searches though.

I also think that their name is part of the reason for their success. It's different from 'google' or 'bing' or 'yahoo' and it yet it is specific for what it does and I think lends people a partial understanding as to what the benefits are, right out of the box.

I've been getting the DDG newsletters since day 1, but I can't seem to fully adapt to duck duck go. I guess I just am addicted to using google.

=EDIT= For those commenting that they aren't familiar with the name, its interesting that you still understand its a search engine. Thus for you, understanding the context of the name is irrelevant. But for those not familiar with search engines, but do know duck duck goose, I think its pretty logical to explain 'duck duck go' as a search engine.

I'm really glad that DDG has been able to capitalize on the NSA fallout. I remember checking the site out awhile ago but defaulted to expecting failure (hey, I'm not a VC).

The only real reason I haven't switched is that I'm VERY wired into the Google ecosystem. I use Google Apps heavily and have a Nexus phone. Search results on DDG aren't always great but that was never really a problem for me.