Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

As a quacking/ducking web developer, results often are more relevant than with google these days. If I'm not happy with what I find through duckduckgo I just add a quick !g and skim the google results - best of both worlds.

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by marban » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

machbio wrote: post #4

Redirecting to this page - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026431/this-company-wants-to-ma...

not for me?

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by zacinbusiness » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

I've been a happy DDG user for about 3 years now. I initially started not because of privacy, but because I think the home page and search results are much cleaner and more minimalist. And I've told myself that if Google ever produces a search result that I couldn't find just as easily with DuckDuckGo then I will switch back. So far that hasn't happened.

Now I use DuckDuckGo as my home page and it's my only search engine. And the search results just keep getting better and better.

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Post by mradmin » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

marban wrote: post #6

machbio wrote: post #4

Redirecting to this page - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026431/this-company-wants-to-ma...

not for me?

I have no idea what's going on. First time I viewed the link, it took me to nice laundry (after skipping the ad). The second time I viewed the link, it took me to the correct article. :/

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Post by afhsfsfdsss88 » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 3:24 PM UTC

marban wrote: post #2

Quite surprised about the humongous boost following the Surveillance revelations [ https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html ]

The bump was just a representation of what is sure to be a momentary[relatively] state change in the finite state paranoia machine of a few nearly self-aware 'puter users.

The less self-aware majority still have nothing to hide, and the other side is using Google via proxy.

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by davidpaulkrug » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 3:24 PM UTC

Now that's the company Facebook should have bought.... Not Whatsapp....