FWIW, we have witnessed a noticeable increase in ddg derived traffic across all properties.
Wait, you're getting referrer strings with DDG in them? How is that private?
Can't every site know what page it came from by using the document history?
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
111–120 of 187 posts
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#112When using Google, the amount of times I ended up clicking a different link just because a box above decided to load that very moment was unthinkable. That alone was a big enough of a reason to switch.
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#113I've been switched to DDG for about 4 months now. I am loving the Ads I get in youtube now that google doesn't know what I am interested in they have noting to do with anything I care about. It's wonderful. DDG still has a way to go for really technical queries. I just can't get the same results about this error or that in Java. Until then I'm 100% DDG for personal and 100% google for work.
I have been using DDG for roughly 2 years now and I always search for things technical or non-technical there first. If it does not give any result or when I know it's very technical I simply add !g to the end (but you can add it anywhere) and it automatically searches the same thing in Google.
Some examples of things I personally thing DDG could improve / is different then Google:
- DDG gives the feeling they prefer wikipedia over stack overflow. Stack overflow ranks often second.
- GLSL shaders. DDG does not index websites such as shadertoy. Example search for "Gold Noise Uniform Random"
- indexing Youtube and other videos. It takes up to 2 days before new youtube videos show up if you search for a video. Example a mcdonalds burned down in my city a few weeks ago so I searched for videos and photos. It did not find any videos only photos and articles. Google found a few videos including once on a dutch news website.
- Visual search and reverse image lookup is not that great. Only in Bing you can search for a video based on a image DDG and Google both can not do that. So both could improve that.
- DDG sometimes gives the feeling not enough people have searched for something, This feeling is more a feeling then a real thing. This is mostly because Google finds a lot of spelling / typo's in your search query and DDG appears to only repairs it until it contains valid words. Example search for "A apple a day keps the", Google corrects AN and KEEPS but DuckDuckGo only corrects KEEPS.
- Old websites are not indexed that well. Example if you are developing a gameboy advance game it takes a while before you find Tonc (one of the best resources regarding GBA development). With google this experience is terrible as well but it takes less time to find some good things.
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#114I seem to be using the Google bang command less past few months. I started using DDG in Dec 2018 after a story here showed (with evidence) that Google invited a female inventor out for an interview & then stole/patented her work.
Overall using two search engines provides solid results with DDG being my main engine.
It was cool to see DDG browser app in the top 20 iPhone apps this week!
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might enjoy invidious. It's a frontend for youtube that cuts 99% of the bloat and show videos directly in your html5 player. It even supports subscriptions without a google account!
Is it still running ok. Didn’t the main instance shutdown or something? Sorry, I forget the specifics.
I haven't had success with using Invidious. I'd love to ditch the YT frontend and tracking though.
I have extensions that remove suggested videos on the sidebar, homepage, and during the video; as well as ads, comments, and product recommendations. I use YT in a Firefox container without an account that is separate from my other Google container.
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#116I've been switched to DDG for about 4 months now. I am loving the Ads I get in youtube now that google doesn't know what I am interested in they have noting to do with anything I care about. It's wonderful. DDG still has a way to go for really technical queries. I just can't get the same results about this error or that in Java. Until then I'm 100% DDG for personal and 100% google for work.
I have been using DDG for roughly 2 years now and I always search for things technical or non-technical there first. If it does not give any result or when I know it's very technical I simply add !g to the end (but you can add it anywhere) and it automatically searches the same thing in Google. Some examples of things I personally thing DDG could improve / is different then Google: - DDG gives the feeling they prefer…
> I have been using DDG for roughly 2 years now and I always search for things technical or non-technical there first. If it does not give any result or when I know it's very technical I simply add !g to the end
I am the same, but i default to !sp (startpage.com) first.
They claim:
> You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. [...]
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#117To 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…
Google - 96.3%
Bing - 1.8%
DDG - 1.0%
Yahoo - 0.8%
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#118After 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.
I would love some ideas for how to get rid of YouTube. What do you have in mind?
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#119One thing I loved about DDG, that 'forced' me to use it on mobile, is being able to filter by date (last week/month/year) on mobile. Google and Bing don't offer that simple feature in any way.
Google mobile website does for me. Steps: * Search * Scroll the tabs bar (All, Images, Shopping, etc) all the way to the rightmost entry, "Search Tools" * Tap "Search Tools" * A secondary menu bar with "ANY TIME \/" will appear. You can use that to filter by date-range.
I see... If I open the browser and search there, it shows, if I use the search widget, it doesn't have the option
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#120I've been switched to DDG for about 4 months now. I am loving the Ads I get in youtube now that google doesn't know what I am interested in they have noting to do with anything I care about. It's wonderful. DDG still has a way to go for really technical queries. I just can't get the same results about this error or that in Java. Until then I'm 100% DDG for personal and 100% google for work.
Out of curiosity, do you use the "Send Feedback" in the bottom-right(!) corner of the results page to let them know? I have almost zero belief it does anything, but without even attempting to provide feedback I don't think it's reasonable to expect any change