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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 noloqy »

greghinch wrote: post #64

I like DDG in theory a lot, and have switched my default search to it, but admittedly still end up going back to Google a lot, as DDG often doesn't bring up what I'm looking for, whereas it'll be the first result on Google.

Same here. I used DDG a couple of years ago, for about 2 months. I also ended up going back to Google for at least 30% of my queries. As a result of the reduction in productivity, I decided to switch back to Google. Besides the anonymity there are a couple of features I like, but content wise there is no match to Google at the moment. One thing I like is the bang feature (!stackoverflow hello world), but realize that Chromium offers something more convenient built-in, which I also rarely use in practice.

Still waiting for something that brings the best of both worlds.

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

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Post by cenhyperion »

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.

I've moved to using it as my default search provider. I'm using it well over half the time and if the results aren't great I add !g to the end to get google's results.

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Post by sillysaurus »

joering2 wrote: post #78
ck2 wrote: post #16

I have to admit I was skeptical about DDG chances but hard work and being in right place at the right time with privacy has given it the success it deserves. (and it's written in perl of all things) ps. bonus points for deleting eHow from results

First, I am sure your comment about language selection was personal. Facebook in large part stands on PHP; does that mean PHP is better than perl? Second, I am not sure about their future. It looks like its a temporary spark after all the omg-goverment-tracks-my-searches paranoia. The fact is, if the large organisations such as Google or Microsoft could not admit on the record to participation in PRISM, what makes yo…

I think the point was to congratulate DDG on its success, not to say that DDG would be more resistant to the military digital complex.

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Post by Kiro »

schrodingersCat wrote: post #57
trafficlight wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

This myth won't seem to die! Thanks for posting the link

The majority of their results come from Bing so how is it a myth?

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Post by sveme »

ics wrote: post #21
hardtke wrote: post #8

This 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…

I soft-switched a month or two ago and in the beginning was adding !g to pretty much every query out of habit. Over the last week however I decided to poke around more (checking out the other ! tags, understanding what sorts of special queries would get answers) and have only asked for Google results once since to compare with DDG. Google's presentation is still much better (i.e. if I type in Yankees on Google I get…

Interesting. DuckDuckGo shows news.ycombinator.com as the featured site, while Google does not show this exact link at all on the first site, neither via g! nor s!. Only the HN jobs site is in the top ten search results. Bing has it correctly again.

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Post by freechoice22 »

ck2 wrote: post #16

I have to admit I was skeptical about DDG chances but hard work and being in right place at the right time with privacy has given it the success it deserves. (and it's written in perl of all things) ps. bonus points for deleting eHow from results

But it also gives very good results for common search tasks. Compared it myself to few other not so known search engines and it gives even better results than Google since it doesn't seem to favor corporate web pages but rather relevant results. Google became too big and too greedy and top of it all caved into the mass surveillance scheme, behind our backs. Why use a search engine and products endorsed by hypocrites. At least yahoo did some minor fight although they are not exactly better either, but that fight did give many of us a warning about what is going on behind the curtains.

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Post by flexd »

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.

They have http://ddg.gg/ though.
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