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Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by ma2rten »

This metric is meaningless, for all we know DDG could have become less helpful and people have to rephrase their queries more often than before.

EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by pokemongoaway »

kardos wrote: post #3

So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".

The concept or actual privacy? The concept will inevitably become more well-known if the actuality is becoming so obviously not private (which it is).

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by ravenstine »

kardos wrote: post #3

So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".

That saying does seem to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, so I look forward in the same way.

I predict that a large swath of the population still won't care much about privacy, or at least take action to protect theirs, but I'm seeing an awakening of people coming to realize how dangerous big tech can become. What's funny to me is if Google wasn't so brazen in ditching their old "don't be evil" pretense, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion as often as we are.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by relyio »

kardos wrote: post #3

So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".

Some of my friends, who aren't in tech nor are privacy-inclined, were shocked to receive an alert that data on them had been exposed in a data breach.

The data had been collected by a third-party without their consent!

Not long after, the dataset became available and now it is one of the top result when you type their names in Google.

While the data isn't embarrassing, it includes some personal stuff they wanted to keep private.

That they had not even consented into giving that data made them feel violated. And truth is, that happens everyday. Which made me think that privacy is truly a consent issue at heart.

Now for a "fun" exercise, imagine how many CRMs out there run on insecure machines and what are the odds that there's someone incompetent enough to leave these databases publicly exposed and not password protected. IMO, it's extremely likely.

Well, they have very strong opinions on privacy now. I guess that's the only way people will care, sadly.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by clubm8 »

ma2rten wrote: post #5

This metric is meaningless, for all we know DDG could have become less helpful and people have to rephrase their queries more often than before. EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue.

>EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue.

You made a comment stating "This metric is meaningless". You are not being downvoted because we misunderstood - you're being downvoted because you are wrong.

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