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Post by conradfr »

hojjat12000 wrote: post #92
conradfr wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is on mobile and there's so much nowadays that I had to stop clicking video links on my phone.

You can use Youtube Vanced (Youtube Advance without the Ad) on your phone. I can not recommend it enough. It also supports "Sponsor blocker". It's the best app for youtube addicts.

I was fine with a small amount of ads but yeah I guess I'll have to try it now.

The irony is that I was a Google Play Music subscriber until its death but in my country you still had the Youtube ads.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by divbzero »

sneeuwpopsneeuw wrote: post #113
ravedave5 wrote: post #10

I'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…

Note that the comments regarding indexing should be attributed to Bing, the underlying search engine that DDG uses currently. I too switch to !g occasionally when searching particular niches.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

TekMol wrote: post #11

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…

Google 83%, Bing 9%, DDG 3%, Yahoo 2%.

This time last year: Google 89%, Bing 6%, DDG 1.9%, Yahoo 1.9%.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by potatochup »

cianmm wrote: post #66

I’ve been on DuckDuckGo for nearly a year now and while I’m mostly happy, it can be a frustrating experience as somebody living in Ireland. When making a location specific search, often even including the word “Ireland” or the city I live in, I will get results from the UK, or the US. Bizarrely, toggling the “Ireland” location switcher on often makes the results worse - which is surprising since it will often priorit…

Yeah, same here with NZ. Even with the location toggle enabled, if I don't append "NZ" to my query, I end up with a whole lot of useless results from the USA, UK, etc. I still use DDG for everything but the most technical queries though.

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Post by barbacoa »

ravedave5 wrote: post #10

I'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.

The key to technical questions in ddg is to be very verbose. From tracking you Google knows you're a programer who works in Java, ddg doesn't do that by design.

When I search "transformer" in ddg I get the movie franchise, when I do it in Google I get the ones you see hanging on utility poles. Google knows I look at power electronics. When I search "voltage transformer" in ddg I get the same quality results as google.

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Post by [deleted] »

Semaphor wrote: post #80
TekMol wrote: post #11

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…

56.8% google 38.6% direct 1.44% bing 0.34% startpage 0.3% ecosia 0.27% DDG But I feel like non-google users are more likely to block GA, so these stats are probably skewed.

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Post by Zhyl »

nostromo wrote: post #74
yabones wrote: post #33

I've used DDG full-time for over two years now. I honestly don't miss Google. Every time I use !g I'm reminded just how bad it's gotten. Between the SEO spam and ads I find myself scrolling at least halfway down the page to find anything even remotely relevant. I can't say that DDG always has the 'best' results, but at least they seem appropriate to what I'm searching for. One thing I do wish DDG has is webmaster too…

!g is some sort of brilliant marketing. Me: "I don't see what I expected. I'll try Google." Me two seconds later 9 out of 10 times: "Oh, Google also sucks for this query. Oh well."

It's also amazing for analytics.

"What are people not finding on our engine?"

    grep -F '!g' log

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Post by kaszanka »

divbzero wrote: post #122
sneeuwpopsneeuw wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Note that the comments regarding indexing should be attributed to Bing, the underlying search engine that DDG uses currently. I too switch to !g occasionally when searching particular niches.

I use !sp (Startpage). It's basically a Google proxy, if I understand correctly.

Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

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Post by aarchi »

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.

Since switching to DDG, I haven't used Google Search once nor !g. I've had a better experience with DDG: no sponsored results, less skewed rankings, less censoring (Google removes many results from DMCA requests), and of course no tracking. Google's lazy-loaded useless suggestion boxes, added a few years ago, that push the content down, often when clicking on a link, were my final annoyance before switching. For the first bit after switching, I missed seeing the daily Google doodles, but I'm now more cynical towards Google and no longer care.

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Post by godshatter »

tinyhouse wrote: post #79
twobitshifter wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah they do have their own index but the majority of results come from Bing. There are several search engines using Bing as the backbone, but Microsoft doesn’t appear to want to have any new search partners. Both the google and Bing search indexes are controlled by trillion dollar companies, so alternative search engines are operating under agreements with either company.

A search engine company without their own search engine is not very promising. I'm assuming/hoping they have plans to serve most queries themselves in the future.

I looked around for a roadmap, but I haven't found one. I imagine that indexing large portions of the web is a huge investment, hopefully they can do more as time goes on and money comes in.
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