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DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by yaddayadda »

jmilkbal wrote: post #30
anonymousDan wrote: post #18

Can 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 ).

How do the Start Page and Ixquick search engines differ?

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Post by mortalkastor »

dewey wrote: post #12
Ihmahr wrote: post #6

In case they can't handle scaling fast enough: www.startpage.com

I like the idea but I don't understand how you could switch to a site that ugly.

Fortunately, there is a userstyle, aptly named "startpage clean & minimal", for fixing the ugliness.

http://userstyles.org/styles/85728/startpage-clean-minimal

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Post by trafficlight »

Kiro wrote: post #40

Is 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?

Bing is only one index source. They have their own crawler, plus they pull from dozens of other sources.

http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-source...

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Post by xpose2000 »

DDG is headed in the right direction. But it still isn't quite ready for me to use it daily. I start typing a query in and have to wait a minute wondering why the suggestions aren't showing up. I am completely used to how Google works.

A critical feature I would like to see are real-time search results that Google added a few years ago. Autocomplete suggestions are also critical.

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Post by cpeterso »

jivid wrote: post #35
sdoowpilihp wrote: post #27

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.

Why not just create a URL alias? Firefox and Chrome both have pretty good add-ons for creating aliases.

Firefox has built-in support for Keyword Search bookmarks. You don't need to install an add-on to create aliases.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

If you bookmark any website's search results page, you can add a keyword and edit the bookmarked URL to include a printf-style %s placeholder. When you enter the keyword plus some string, Firefox opens the bookmarked URL, substituting your string for %s.

For example, I have a "w" keyword search for Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?search=%s and a "yt" keyword search for YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&search=Searc...

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