I really like duck duck go. I just wish they would register ddg.cm so I don't have to type out the whole url. I would register it myself and forward it if it wasn't for the fact that cm registrations cost nearly 100 dollars.
Try ddg.gg
DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)
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#32Can anyone who uses duckduckgo tell me whether it does anything to hide your identity when you tell it to drop to google using !g ?
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#33I really like duck duck go. I just wish they would register ddg.cm so I don't have to type out the whole url. I would register it myself and forward it if it wasn't for the fact that cm registrations cost nearly 100 dollars.
Try http://ddg.gg/.
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#34They got a huge boost out of the whole NSA fallout, which they consequently used to great effect for marketing. Good for them! I still hate the name, though.
I think it's better than "bing" and "yahoo".
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#35I really like duck duck go. I just wish they would register ddg.cm so I don't have to type out the whole url. I would register it myself and forward it if it wasn't for the fact that cm registrations cost nearly 100 dollars.
Why not just create a URL alias? Firefox and Chrome both have pretty good add-ons for creating aliases.
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#36Can anyone who uses duckduckgo tell me whether it does anything to hide your identity when you tell it to drop to google using !g ?
Nope, it's just a redirect to Google with your query filled in for the appropriate query string argument. If you want to use Google privately, use Start Page ( http://startpage.com ) or Ixquick ( http://ixquick.com ).
The query from ddg to startpage is !sp and to Ixquick is !ix
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
huh. ok, can someone explain the name, please? i think it must be specific to some (american?) culture.
It's a play on the name of a popular children's game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose
I've never heard of this game. I thought that the name hints to the duck test: "if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test
I.e. that Duck Duck Go is what it looks it is - it's a search engine. And not some tool which secretly harvests data of its users for its own benefit.
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#38This increase in traffic are not being seen in the unique visitor counts measured by Compete ( https://siteanalytics.compete.com/duckduckgo.com/ ). It appears as if a loyal core of duckduckgo users are switching to it entirely. Alternatively, duckduckgo users are not tracked by Compete, which is entire possible since I believe Compete gets their data from browser extensions that don't respect privacy. Note, Compete d…
That graph only goes to May. The increase happened two months later. For the date range it shows, their estimates match up with the usage graph on DDG almost perfectly.
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#39I personally think the 7 day average gives a better picture than the 28 day for the usage trends. 1 day has too much noise with the day of the week variations. In th 7 day average you can see a decrease after the last spike.
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#40Is there any reason to switch if you don't really care about privacy? For me DDG is just a skin on top of the Bing search index with a silly name. Why would I use it?