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

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Post by crucifiction »

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."

A lot of Amazon.com is still Perl...

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

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Post by kamaal »

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."

Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.

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Post by conradev »

vacri wrote: post #100
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."

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

Precisely why I, too, believe Perl was chosen.

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Post by brentsota »

carb wrote: post #23
andrewcooke wrote: post #22

Earlier 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

To the midwesterners, particularly upper-midwest (Minnesota), we are more familiar with, "duck, duck, gray duck", (if that helps).

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

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Post by lostlogin »

mchusma wrote: post #127
marssaxman wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A fair point. I still think "Yahoo" is a dorky name, but perhaps that's because I don't really understand why they still exist. Google, on the other hand, has earned my respect and thus I have stopped noticing what a silly name they have.

I think one fewer syllable and fact that neither yahoo or google were commonly written (or said) make them better names. I use DDG, but think the name is terrible. It also can't become a verb as easily, as google has.

True - but saying that I'll Google it then jumping on Duck Duck Go is more amusing.

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

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Post by lostlogin »

haldujai wrote: post #121

Part of the reason Google has seemingly perfect search results is because of the bubble, and because it knows us so well. It's quite the dilemma of whether the loss in privacy is worth the better search results. For example when I search 'Egypt' on Google all of the search results (except for Wikipedia) are on the competing political factions, something I've read extensively out of interest. The same search on DuckDu…

I wouldn't describe Googles as a perfect search at any stretch. The spammy sites that have scraped a terrible version of some old data that is vaguely related to my search terms a a constant irritation, and scrolling past several adverts its very annoying. NSA and creepy tracking aside.

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

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Post by lostlogin »

clarky07 wrote: post #139
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.

But if you have no interest in advertising and would pay to avoid adverts... There is no choice.
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