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DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by yardie »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #132
TimJRobinson wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their motto is they don't track your history at all, so even if the government asked for information or it became part of prism they would have nothing to give.

Sadly, that would mean legal issues for them :(

Under which law. Current data retention laws are you have to retain what you say you retain. So if your stated policy is 90 days but you only keep 30, you are not compliant. But if you keep 0 and state you keep 0 days you are compliant. Obviously, there are different rules for finance, govt, and medical industries.

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by mehwoot »

gilgoomesh wrote: post #130
mehwoot wrote: post #126

Wow I didn't realise how little traffic they got previously. They must have had like... 5,000 regular users? Hopefully a lot of the new traffic sticks around.

This data covers roughly 3 years. Obviously, they started small but they've been around 1.5 million queries per day for a while. The "28 days" in the title is a little misleading. It's just the smoothing applied to the graph, not the total time period.

Ohhhhhh I see. This makes a lot more sense. I saw Multiple "July" and increasing numbers and thought it was days.

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Post by voicereason »

alex_c wrote: post #60
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

We've been reading epi0Bauqu's posts about DDG here for... what is it now? Over 3 years? At first it seemed like a wonderfully quixotic project - a new, home-grown search engine? Yeah right! But then a year passed, then another, and traffic was up, and then it was up some more, and it seemed like he would never give up... at some point it stopped looking quixotic, and started to be a joy to watch. Will love to see wh…

Traffic is easy. Profit is harder - especially if you make it clear from the outset that you're anti-advertising (See Reddit).

Whilst the growth is fun to watch, it's still only 37 direct queries a second, which is nothing.

Also, I know it's been mentioned a million times before, but the name is an artificial ceiling to growth. A large % of people have no clue what duck duck goose is. A large % of people see the name as amateur, childish and stupid.

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Post by josteink »

I've finally managed to make the switch to DDG and this time it seems to stick. Every time I've tried before, I've quickly gone back to google, not finding the results good enough.

Either the results have improved since then, or I'm more conscious about my provacy and thus avoiding using and depending on Google products all over the line.

The last 2 months I've completely dropped at least 4 Google products, and I can see the list getting longer.

Thanks to the DDG-team for being one of the actors out there who respect my privacy!

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Post by tomgirl1 »

voicereason wrote: post #153
alex_c wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've been reading epi0Bauqu's posts about DDG here for... what is it now? Over 3 years? At first it seemed like a wonderfully quixotic project - a new, home-grown search engine? Yeah right! But then a year passed, then another, and traffic was up, and then it was up some more, and it seemed like he would never give up... at some point it stopped looking quixotic, and started to be a joy to watch. Will love to see wh…

Traffic is easy. Profit is harder - especially if you make it clear from the outset that you're anti-advertising (See Reddit). Whilst the growth is fun to watch, it's still only 37 direct queries a second, which is nothing. Also, I know it's been mentioned a million times before, but the name is an artificial ceiling to growth. A large % of people have no clue what duck duck goose is. A large % of people see the name…

You are right about that...but years ago I had a service which shall remain nameless that got 10 million hits a month just by removing the tracking links on Google search results.

I didnt make a dime, but I did get calls from spooky people out of the blue who wouldnt identify themselves asking questions.

I admire anyone who pursues this goal, and yet I will never go there again.

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Post by denis1 »

boyter wrote: post #63
denis1 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience, code search is not that bad. Usually the relevant SO posts are on top (maybe even "featured"). I've encountered this problem on obscure code searches though.

Out of curiosity are you getting good code search results in the zero click box or the general search results?

The results are pretty good, but ,as I said, usually the searches are not too complex. YMMV.

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Post by boyter »

denis1 wrote: post #156
boyter wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity are you getting good code search results in the zero click box or the general search results?

The results are pretty good, but ,as I said, usually the searches are not too complex. YMMV.

Sorry should have been more clear. I run the site that provides ddg with the code results (usually) so a search like "php mysql_query example" will trigger my API. I am always interested to find people using this and seeing if the result was OK for them.
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