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Post by HyprMusic »

tobylane wrote: post #75
HyprMusic wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't realise they had deleted ehow, is this actually true? Isn't that a bad thing for neutrality? Where do you draw the line?

eHow themselves were bad for neutrality, as it was poor quality link-bait. It's too qualitative to describe the line, but the widespread disdain for eHow is a good requirement for the future.

I personally don't believe results should be removed or altered based on human judgement. What if I decide to start a competing service that Gabriel takes a dislike to? Or decide to start a hate site for DDG[1]? Do they not deserve a place on the internet? Is it up to one person to decide this? For neutrality to work it needs to be neutral for absolutely everyone, or atleast that's how I see it.

[1] These are purely hypothetical. I'm a big fan of both Gabriel and DDG, and I'm not suggesting he would ever do these.

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Post by sinkasapa »

greghinch wrote: post #64

I like DDG in theory a lot, and have switched my default search to it, but admittedly still end up going back to Google a lot, as DDG often doesn't bring up what I'm looking for, whereas it'll be the first result on Google.

You can always use Startpage to use Google https://startpage.com/. I use both Startpage and DDG frequently. Sometimes the results of one are what I want and sometimes the other.

The whole idea of there being just one useful search engine doesn't make sense to me. I only wish these companies would do more to differentiate themselves and that there were more options.

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Post by eliasmacpherson »

stevelaz wrote: post #52
ck2 wrote: post #16

I have to admit I was skeptical about DDG chances but hard work and being in right place at the right time with privacy has given it the success it deserves. (and it's written in perl of all things) ps. bonus points for deleting eHow from results

Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."

Slashdot too, if I could download knowledge into my brain matrix style, perl would be the first thing.

http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashc...

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Post by alan_cx »

stephanos2k wrote: post #3

Even 2 of my friends who don't even know the difference between Chrome and Internet Explorer recently talked about "this new search engine, something with duck...". It's catching on :)

Sounds just like when google was new. As good sign, I'd say.

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Post by hunterjlang »

Domenic_S wrote: post #93
sdp wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the connection between you and DDG is over SSL, what does it matter that they've scraped your encrypted packets?

SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/25/ssl-intercepted...

We now support PFS.

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Post by jacobheric »

For privacy, I'd love to switch to DDG. I try them out almost every time I read about them. But I always end up switching back to GOOG because I just can't find what I want.

Here's how today's switch went:

1. Install DDG chrome extension

2. Set DDG as default search provider

3. Search "duck duck go bang feature" (for a refresher)

4. What I wanted (https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html) was nowhere in the search results

5. Switch default search provider back to GOOG

6. Search "duck duck go bang feature"

7. #1 result: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Alas, I wish it weren't so...

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Post by bajsejohannes »

medde wrote: post #116

Do people that switch really think that their privacy is better off? I though the NSA was logging everything that travels the network at some large backbones?

Source? Storage is pretty cheap, but storing everything? That's a lot of data. (You'd have to store a copy of that netflix movie every time it's played back)

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

alex_c wrote: post #105
pieterhg wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish they changed their name to just Duck. Much more clear. Ironically, Google owns duck.com.

On QWERTY keyboards, that's a dangerous typo for a general-purpose search engine...

Two potentially negative typos are one error away - dick and fuck. Maybe there are more but I can't see them; suck?
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