DuckDuckGo is growing

#1

Post by jeffmiller » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:28 PM UTC

DuckDuckGo is growing
gabrielweinberg.com

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#2

Post by forcer » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

I think its a good move. In my opinion you can only play the one-man-band card for a while and then you need to come up with other reasons why press should write about you. DDG has innovated quickly and been able to address user's needs at the right time when they were discussed in the press, picking up the loyal users on the way...

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#3

Post by suking » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:02 PM UTC

I quickly used DDG for the first time for some searches and you guys place WAY too much emphasis on exact query match domains. Also, including .com.au addresses in a local search when I'm in the US is probably not a lot of help.

Best of luck.

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:20 PM UTC

suking wrote: post #3

I quickly used DDG for the first time for some searches and you guys place WAY too much emphasis on exact query match domains. Also, including .com.au addresses in a local search when I'm in the US is probably not a lot of help. Best of luck.

Thx for the feedback - duly noted! Would appreciate the specific example for the .com.au stuff here: http://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html

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Post by binarymax » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:33 PM UTC

Thanks for building and growing DDG! Have been using it for awhile now as my default search engine and I love it.

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:47 PM UTC

Congratulations Gabriel. DDG is invaluable for those of us who do not want our searches logged into a database, who do not want search results sorted by whether or not an acquaintance has "liked" a page. I wear my DDG t-shirt out and have been asked about it a couple of times. I wear it happily.

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#7

Post by white_devil » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:49 PM UTC

So what's the plan for making money with DDG?

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Post by patja » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 3:52 PM UTC

I tried switching to DDG, but found that I was really missing Google's date range filter. Especially for troubleshooting searches where you can get results that are relevant to the search terms but have obsolete old content, I almost always hit "past year" or even "past month". I know about the sort by date feature in DDG, but I really want date as a filter on the whole result set, with a sort by relevance within the filtered results.

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Post by EponymousCoward » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 4:01 PM UTC

white_devil wrote: post #7

So what's the plan for making money with DDG?

Paid search results? Would it really be incongruent with what DDG is doing?

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Post by jvehent » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

patja wrote: post #8

I tried switching to DDG, but found that I was really missing Google's date range filter. Especially for troubleshooting searches where you can get results that are relevant to the search terms but have obsolete old content, I almost always hit "past year" or even "past month". I know about the sort by date feature in DDG, but I really want date as a filter on the whole result set, with a sort by relevance within the…

I support that ! This is the feature I miss the most in DDG. Most of my searches during the day relate to tech stuff, and recent content is one of the most relevant criteria (usually, I filter to get the result from the last 12 months).