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

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Post by Moto7451 »

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."

Adding to the list of Perl shops: TicketMaster, Rent.com, Campus Explorer, and ZipRecruiter (where I work).

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Post by Aldo_MX »

TimJRobinson wrote: post #102
joering2 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Their motto is they don't track your history at all, so even if the government asked for information or it became part of prism they would have nothing to give.

Sadly, that would mean legal issues for them :(

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

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Post by ics »

jacobheric wrote: post #117

For privacy, I'd love to switch to DDG. I try them out almost every time I read about them. But I always end up switching back to GOOG because I just can't find what I want. Here's how today's switch went: 1. Install DDG chrome extension 2. Set DDG as default search provider 3. Search "duck duck go bang feature" (for a refresher) 4. What I wanted ( https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html ) was nowhere in the search results…

Granted you probably don't have to worry about this on Google but if you'd typed the name as one word (which it always is, AFAIK) you would have gotten the proper results.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo+bang+feature

You can consider that a shortcoming given how specific the query was. However, once you realize its behavior it isn't that difficult to find what you want– in some cases, it's actually very helpful.

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

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Post by dfc »

HyprMusic wrote: post #72
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 didn't realise they had deleted ehow, is this actually true? Isn't that a bad thing for neutrality? Where do you draw the line?

I don't want "search neutrality."

Fortunately any regulatory regime would be an absolute nightmare so I am not worried about search neutrality ever being a big thing. How do you distinguish between relevant search results and a lack of search neutrality?

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Post by clarky07 »

ics wrote: post #136
jacobheric wrote: post #117

For privacy, I'd love to switch to DDG. I try them out almost every time I read about them. But I always end up switching back to GOOG because I just can't find what I want. Here's how today's switch went: 1. Install DDG chrome extension 2. Set DDG as default search provider 3. Search "duck duck go bang feature" (for a refresher) 4. What I wanted ( https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html ) was nowhere in the search results…

Granted you probably don't have to worry about this on Google but if you'd typed the name as one word (which it always is, AFAIK) you would have gotten the proper results. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo+bang+feature You can consider that a shortcoming given how specific the query was. However, once you realize its behavior it isn't that difficult to find what you want– in some cases, it's actually very helpful.

that search doesn't seem to get the right page for me...

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

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Post by clarky07 »

fear91 wrote: post #66

Good. Google monopoly is bad for everyone except their shareholders. I'd love the search market to be split into 3-4 entities with similiar market share - not one getting 80-90% of the cake. Google extracts way too much value out of web traffic, killing the small business - and this phenomenon increases quarter by quarter in its intensity.

I'm not sure I agree completely. There are some advantages. One being that if you are interested in advertising, you can work with optimizing 1 campaign instead of 4.

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

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Post by ics »

clarky07 wrote: post #138
ics wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Granted you probably don't have to worry about this on Google but if you'd typed the name as one word (which it always is, AFAIK) you would have gotten the proper results. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo+bang+feature You can consider that a shortcoming given how specific the query was. However, once you realize its behavior it isn't that difficult to find what you want– in some cases, it's actually very helpful.

that search doesn't seem to get the right page for me...

I just switched my region to "No Region" and you're right, the top result is https://duckduckgo.com/newbang. Switching back to Japan gives the proper result.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: UK gives the proper result. Canada as well.

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