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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 clubm8 » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 5:32 PM UTC

ma2rten wrote: post #43

clubm8 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue. You made a comment stating "This metric is meaningless". You are not being downvoted because we misunderstood - you're being downvoted because you are wrong .

There were no downvotes when I made the edit.

> There were no downvotes when I made the edit.

I doubt that. I replied very shortly after, and it was displayed in grey as downvoted comments are.

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

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Post by justfor1comment » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

gutnor wrote: post #19

justfor1comment wrote: post #2

Using it as my default on my personal gadgets. Practically the same as Google for generic searches.

I haven't been so lucky, maybe that's because of searches in the UK ? Google manages to find more locally relevant information (the most annoying one is the stuff from amazon.com instead of amazon.co.uk). You can easily turn "UK search" in DDG, but when you do it, but in turn that's less relevant for technical search. Probably will wait a few more months to give it another go.

Yes, it's not good for the use case you described. That's what I intended to say with my comment on "generic searches". If you are looking for something very specific like a piece of code that resolves your OOM error or a uk seller of a xkcd hoodie then it's better to add !g to your search.

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

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Post by gremlinsinc » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 7:15 PM UTC

nitrogen wrote: post #110

dmix wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

On google mobile is actually a factor in page ranking, if you're not mobile friendly you won't rank. Obviously this person needs some help w/ their website, if they were on wordpress with a good mobile theme, and good page load they'd definitely be ranked first for that serp.

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

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Post by dna_polymerase » Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 1:00 PM UTC

dcow wrote: post #79

dna_polymerase wrote: post #50

A search engine that has nothing more to offer than "privacy" isn't really worth my time. Whenever I use DDG I get inferior search results. If privacy is your concern with Google use Startpage. That Bing/Yahoo mashup that DDG want to sell simply doesn't cut it for me (or any of my friends/colleagues).

You are not concerned with privacy, obviously. What’s your name, address, favorite food, latest medical issue?

That's not at all what I wrote.