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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 Cyclone_ »

craftyguy wrote: post #93
graeme wrote: post #85

At a 50% growth rate, it would take DDG 12 years to surpass Google's 2015 volume of 3 billion searches, correct? Not that DDG has to catch up to google to be a success. But it's interesting to consider the scale.

The cynical side of me wonders how long DDG will continue before they sell out. You can only live so long off of angel investors and random grants. Some organizations have been able to survive (wikipedia) this way, but it's definitely not easy.

I believe they have revenue through ads. Don't know if they're profitable or not, my guess would be no.

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

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Post by dmix »

tmerr wrote: post #83
Jedi72 wrote: post #42

Google isnt even a good search engine any more. I tried finding my friends website, www.catbartlett.com.au, with the terms "Freelance graphic designer Cat Bartlett Perth Western Australia" - pretty specific, but the first page is nothing but LinkedIn profile links and random mentions of her in testimonials. If it takes thousands of $$ in SEO to get found, how is that a useful search engine? We might as well go back t…

This is most likely a WiX configuration issue. The HTML source for https://www.catbartlett.com.au/ contains Maybe try https://support.wix.com/en/article/enabling-search-engines-e... ?

The website also gets a 0/100 pagescore [1] because of "noindex". Plus the tag has a single word "design"...nothing about the contents of the site. It only's mention of "Cat Bartlett Graphic Design" 1x and is in an tag halfway down the page (not repeat anywhere nor in an H1 tag.

No wonder google can't find it. This is SEO 101 that Google will tell you how to fix for free.

[1] https://sitechecker.pro/seo-report/https://www.catbartlett.c...

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

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Post by emptybits »

dcow wrote: post #80
stevenjohns wrote: post #30

After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…

I’ve been very happy with ProtonMail since I finally ditched gmail last month too. Been using FireFox since quantum and DDG around the same time. It was disruptive for the first week but I can’t remember the last time I made a google search except maps. The google maps app didn’t make the cut for my new iPhone, though. Now I just need to dump my photos into Azure so I’m not dependent on drive. Now, DDG just needs to…

> Now, DDG just needs to rebrand with a “verbable” name so it’s easier to talk about...

As has been suggested here before, "just Duck it".

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

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Post by nyolfen »

i really want to switch to ddg, but despite seeing many comments to the contrary, the results for a lot of searches i do have noticeably inferior results. i know i shouldn't expect the world and i'll likely gradually switch, but google can be exceptionally useful for eg open-ended questions phrased in natural language.

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

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Post by aclsid »

kryogen1c wrote: post #57
kgwxd wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bing should have been !bing and !b should have been reserved from something more useful, like butternut squash recipes.

Not only is this funny, it's very true. I work in IT, and even the most computer illiterate people generally can't get tricked into using Bing.

Wait until you go to China and you will love Bing. That is unless you enjoy turning on and off VPNs

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

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Post by Alterlife »

mgalgs wrote: post #84
mygo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched away from Google to Bing on my iPhone because I like to Google in incognito mode for basically everything... and recently Google’s added some annoying friction to that. I started Googling in incognito when Google decided to return “personalized” search results instead of standard results, a few years ago. I was always more interested in the normal results than whatever Google thought I specifically wanted…

I've never seen this behavior by Google in incognito... Wonder if they're doing some questionable browser/os fingerprinting to track you??

I haven't seen this in incognito either... which is probably why op is being downvoted.

I didn't downvote because I feel bad for OP, but the information is innacurate according to my personal experience, which IMO is a actually good reason to bury it.

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edit: By the way I DO see the traffic lights, crossroads etc and can sometimes NEVER get past them sometimes when using Tor, so this might have something to do with google restricting op's network provider rather than incognito mode.

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

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Post by nyolfen »

dmix wrote: post #99
jvolkman wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just use Chrome's address bar. "map " enters a maps-only search. Same for "you " for youtube, etc.

On mobile that's not possible though. !gi for image search is one I use often on mobile. But otherwise that's very true, I also use desktop Chrome's search engines as a keyword system (typing "ny" to launch https://nytimes.com ), regardless if the URL actually includes a search query.

ffx also has this feature, you can right click in a search field and 'add keyword'. i distinctly remember thinking 'this would be a really cool feature' maybe 10 years ago and discovering that it was already there.

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

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Post by nitrogen »

dmix wrote: post #102
tmerr wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is most likely a WiX configuration issue. The HTML source for https://www.catbartlett.com.au/ contains Maybe try https://support.wix.com/en/article/enabling-search-engines-e... ?

The website also gets a 0/100 pagescore [1] because of "noindex". Plus the tag has a single word "design"...nothing about the contents of the site. It only's mention of "Cat Bartlett Graphic Design" 1x and is in an tag halfway down the page (not repeat anywhere nor in an H1 tag. No wonder google can't find it. This is SEO 101 that Google will tell you how to fix for free. [1] https://sitechecker.pro/seo-report/https:…

Ironically for a site seemingly dedicated to checking other sites, it's unusable on mobile (especially after the over-wide and unscrollable "create an account" modal takes over)
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