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Re: What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?

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Post by enriquto » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 2:48 PM UTC

the_duke wrote: post #97

Nebbers wrote: post #60

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Went to try it for a week to see if it was viable. Haven't looked back and have never needed to go to Google's search engine for a year now. Best feature is by far the Stack Overflow 'instant answers'!

I have it as my primary search engine now too, but I find myself constantly using !g because the results suck.

> I have it as my primary search engine now too, but I find myself constantly using !g because the results suck.

It's the opposite for me. I use primarily google, but when the results suck (which is quite often), I switch to duckduckgo to obtain a sensible search.

Re: What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?

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Post by jimmy1 » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

Ibethewalrus wrote: post #140

jimmy1 wrote: post #12

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> I don't know, I just can't trust an ad format where I know the top click just spends the most money. Why? That's exactly how it works every where else: Radio, TV, Billboards. If two people want the same spot, the person who ponies up more money gets the spot.

And that’s how Bing served malware

And that's how your local newspaper serves you telephone numbers to ambulance chasers and medicare fraudsters.

Re: What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?

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Post by djsumdog » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 1:13 AM UTC

Secretmapper wrote: post #103

icotyl wrote: post #96

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I made the switch on all my devices about 6 weeks ago. I lasted 5 weeks. At least for quickly finding relevant programming documentation, I didn't think the results were on par with Google.

You can use the g! prefix and it will go to Google. I found DDG plenty good enough for my use case, and in the rare case I can't find it there I just use g! and bam.

I often use the other ones to go directly to the search I want: !imdb, !w (wikipedia), !rt (rotten tomatoes), etc.