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

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Post by schrodingersCat »

Kiro wrote: post #85
schrodingersCat wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It is true that ddg gets some content from bing, but also from yandex, wolframalpha, and yahoo. Also, ddg does some indexing themselves. Saying that they are "just a skin for bing" doesn't really describe what they are

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Post by noloqy »

spudlyo wrote: post #70
stevelaz wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."

Booking.com is a large online travel agency which is pretty popular in Europe. From a recent job description: Due to our continuing growth we are in search of Perl Developers for our headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We use Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Memcache, JavaScript, Git, Linux & more. We do agile software development based on scrum.

I guess we can call that the 90's heritage of Booking.com. Naturally we can't use the same explanation for DDG, which launched less than half a decade ago.

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

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Post by Domenic_S »

sdp wrote: post #79
SolarUpNote wrote: post #77

If the NSA is recording search requests from the wire, does it matter which search engine you use? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6021008

If the connection between you and DDG is over SSL, what does it matter that they've scraped your encrypted packets?

SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/25/ssl-intercepted...

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Post by kriro »

rickdale wrote: post #17
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

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 th…

The duck logo is pretty cool as well.

I also like the red...not because I think it's beautiful (it's not imo but that's subjective) but because it's very distinct and associateable with search

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Post by lazyjones »

It surprised me to see how DDG actually succeeded in getting noticed by mainstream media and millions of users despite operating on a very small footprint in an extremely difficult market dominated by Google, arguably by making a few right business / ethic choices. That may be encouraging for people who'd like to keep developing for the web, but found too many interesting areas already well-covered by industry behemoths (with weaknesses?).

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Post by marssaxman »

throwaway420 wrote: post #11
Udo wrote: post #2

They 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.

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 techn…

It's not so much endearing and cute as it is just confusing and weird; it makes the project sound like it must be kind of a joke, not a serious attempt at building a high quality search engine. I don't understand what they were going for.

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Post by vacri »

stevelaz wrote: post #52
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

Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."

Perl's strength is manipulating text. Search engines manipulate text...
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