DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by TekMol » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:49 PM UTC

To the webmasters here on HN:

Do you see this reflected in higher user numbers coming from DuckDuckGo over time?

I run a website too. Let me check the stats...

So according to Google Analytics over the last 30 days, 0.7% of my visitors came from DDG. Not bad. That is more then half of Bing, from which 1.2% of my visitors come.

Over time, the DuckDuckGo trend does not look as exponential as in their chart though. More like a linear growth that about doubled from early 2019 to now. But that could be due to many factors of course. Blocked analytics being one.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by time0ut » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

Ddg is so good at this point I forget I’m not using Google. I only have to drop in a !g a couple times a month at most.

I am actually surprised it is only 100M per day. I think it would be much bigger if there was actual fair competition.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by iphorde » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

obilgic wrote: post #4

Looking at different website's google analytics, I can tell that DDG has been picking up last 12 months. Possibly cuz of all FB, TWTR, GOOG privacy chatter.

Yep.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by drocer88 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

kleebeesh wrote: post #8

I wonder how many of those are "!g" queries? I've tried very hard to adopt duckduckgo but it just doesn't cut it, especially for technical topics.

On the other hand, Duckduckgo news is much better than google's.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by iphorde » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

drocer88 wrote: post #2

How does DuckDuckGo do ads? Do they contract this out or manage it internally?

Both, depends on the search.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by tinyhouse » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

Do DDG use any 3rd party search results by default? (for non-!g queries and the like)

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by 0xCMP » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

Dig1t wrote: post #5

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

I pretty much always go with whatever DDG has for most things. If needed I'll redo the query with "!g" to confirm an d in my experience there are a lot of times the DDG query was better in my opinion. Things like about locations or very recent news are usually easier to find on Google though.

I also use "!a" and "!yt" all the time as well.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by lights0123 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

drocer88 wrote: post #2

How does DuckDuckGo do ads? Do they contract this out or manage it internally?

They use Microsoft Advertising: https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliat..., more info: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by guilhermetk » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

After a few failed attempts to migrate from Google as my default search engine due to poor results, a couple of months ago, I decided to give DDG another try. Been using daily since, I don't even remember what Google is. Not sure if the service did improve that much or what, but I'm glad I could move on. Youtube, you are next.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by sergiosgc » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

yoran wrote: post #9

Dig1t wrote: post #5

I would be very curious to see what percentage of these are "!g" queries, but this is still awesome. Very happy to see they are doing well. I'm definitely a full-time DDG user.

Same here. I find myself doing that a lot... My experience is that Google's search results are superior to DDG's.

As a counterpoint, I also use DDG with a !g fallback. I'd place the success of fall-backing to Google at 20% at most. (i.e. most of the time, if DDG fails, Google will fail too).