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Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#101

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I'm sorry but this is pure spam in this context. I think it would be far more prudent to submit this as its own post.

Come on, DDG is not storing datas, neither do we. This was a good feedback and we're looking for more? Beside you know how hard it is to get just a fraction of attention from the community unless you game the stats... Thanks for downvote :-S

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Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#102
The fonts look messed up for me (Debian testing / Firefox 29.0.1). In some cases letter i has a shifted dot (see the word Wikipedia in the last search result in the image below):

https://i.imgur.com/SsicEFJ.png

The fonts come from here:

* https://duckduckgo.com/font/ProximaNova-Sbold-webfont.woff

* https://duckduckgo.com/font/ProximaNova-Reg-webfont.woff

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#103
post #83

Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example: The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly. On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his pic…

When I search "Baptiste Mispelon" in Google, the first three results are: (1) Ad for Christianity (2) GitHub Profile (3) Twitter Profile When I search the same thing on DuckDuckGo, the first three results are: (1) Twitter Profile (2) LinkedIn Profile (3) GitHub Profile I definitely think that the first couple of results on DuckDuckGo are as useful as those produced by Google, if not more so.

Strange, I don't see any ads at the top :O on Google. I have no ad blocker enabled.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#104
The main thing to me is they still do not have driving directions. That to me is really needed to make it useable to the mainstream public.

Also searching for say chicago, IL does not show the maps tab. We need to search for Chicago IL for that. Not sure why the comma is throwing them off.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#106
post #83

Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example: The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly. On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his pic…

> I think it is a mistake to concentrate on clean design on a search engine until the searching algorithm is not that good. The team focusing on the design is, I'm sure, not the same team focusing on the search algorithm. I don't see any reason why the design team should stop improvements because of the search algorithm.

I general if the money is spent on design but the functionality is not quite there yet, that money is not very well spent...

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#108
post #29

Here's the announcement I just posted on our blog: https://duck.co/blog/whatsnew Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to us during our public beta period! Please keep the feedback coming so we can quickly iterate. We really do listen to it all.

About one issue with the fonts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7773911

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#109
post #94
post #83

Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example: The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly. On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his pic…

I get the same three top answers, the only difference being in what place they are. On Google it was Github/Twitter/LinkedIn while on DDG it was Twitter/LinkedIn/Github. No problems here.

Did you find out how the guy looks immediately? I did not, and DDG even misinformed me. His Github, Twitter, and Linkedin are in the top5 results and all of them share the same profile picture, still DDG show some other picture for no good reason.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

#110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I search "Baptiste Mispelon" in Google, the first three results are: (1) Ad for Christianity (2) GitHub Profile (3) Twitter Profile When I search the same thing on DuckDuckGo, the first three results are: (1) Twitter Profile (2) LinkedIn Profile (3) GitHub Profile I definitely think that the first couple of results on DuckDuckGo are as useful as those produced by Google, if not more so.

Strange, I don't see any ads at the top :O on Google. I have no ad blocker enabled.

Well maybe they decided you weren't a good match for the ad after they trawled through all your email.
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