Does anyone know of a recent-ish description of the DDG infrastructure? Only posts I can find are 5 or 6 years old.
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
#12So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".
The number is still very low - I'm probably responsible for 30 of those searches myself, so at most there are a million like me.
As long as they're getting enough traffic to survive and grow it's a good thing, though. They just have to exist and have enough mindshare that when Google hits their major stumble, that media story that terrifies the general public, that public will know they have the alternative and take it.
Search isn't facebook; if it weren't for Google's manipulation of its monopoly power, there'd be absolutely no friction in switching search.
Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
#13is it possible to get personalized search results when using duck duck go?
Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
#14I installed a DDG Chrome extension and said I'd try it for a week.
That was a month ago. Haven't found a need to switch to Google yet.
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#15The average tech person has been switching away from Google products, and this filters down to their social networks, and then their networks, and so on. It's a big deal when the tech people decide to switch.
For me, it was Chrome making me log-in to my account. Now I use Firefox, DDG, ublock, privacy badger, etc. I think society writ large will begin to take privacy more seriously in the coming years.
Edit FYI: If you want google results, add '!g' to the end of a DDG query and it will route to google. I use it sometimes, but not that often given that DDG is usually good.
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#17is it possible to get personalized search results when using duck duck go?
The whole point of DDG is that they don’t personalize results.
Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
#18I installed a DDG Chrome extension and said I'd try it for a week. That was a month ago. Haven't found a need to switch to Google yet.
Same here, and I had done this same experiment last year and switched back quickly. DDG is better than google often, I find relevant things quickly. For most of my searches it takes the cake, Google has a heads up on relevant recent (last hour) sort of info at the moment
Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
#19Using it as my default on my personal gadgets. Practically the same as Google for generic searches.
I haven't been so lucky, maybe that's because of searches in the UK ?
Google manages to find more locally relevant information (the most annoying one is the stuff from amazon.com instead of amazon.co.uk). You can easily turn "UK search" in DDG, but when you do it, but in turn that's less relevant for technical search.
Probably will wait a few more months to give it another go.
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#20The main reason I use DuckDuckGo is when I want to search for more controversial topics that Google decides to filter how they want.
When I search on DuckDuckGo I know I'm not having that filter imposed on me.