I would be willing to create an account (at least for some contexts, like work) and let DDG track me as long as it would improve my search results and I had 100% visibility and control over what they retain.
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#162I’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…
I find Google over-agressive in the other direction when it comes to location. I’ll search for “Empire State Building” and get a page full of local junior high science projects about the Empire State Building and local burger joints with Empire State Building posters on their walls.
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Out of curiosity, do you use the "Send Feedback" in the bottom-right(!) corner of the results page to let them know? I have almost zero belief it does anything, but without even attempting to provide feedback I don't think it's reasonable to expect any change
As the person who just read through feedback today, I can assure you that each piece of feedback sent is received, read and logged by real humans who care and more importantly deeply appreciate the fact that users take time to send feedback :)
Could you consider making a list of common feedback items that already have resolutions? I imagine it would make a popular HN submission in addition to a useful FAQ.
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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I honestly find it interesting people have trouble with duckduckgo. Although, the one thing I have found lacking is their exact phrase search. For exact queries I end up having to add !g the query. Otherwise, I find myself rarely needing to use google.
Exact phrases, even when quoted?
Yes, when quoted.
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#165I 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.
Same here. I find myself doing that a lot... My experience is that Google's search results are superior to DDG's.
I sort of prefer Google Results too. Specially when searching in Spanish.
What I dont like is the amount of captchas Google makes me solve (perhaps because I dont use Chrome or keep my Google account open)
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This reminds me of someone saying that eventually Amazon will just start sending you things and charging you for them with no intervention on your end. It'll just happen to be what you needed at the right time.
This is both horrifying and tantalizing
Once they can deliver my groceries as well right when I need them, I might be willing to sacrifice my privacy.
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#167I'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…
I've been switched for several years as well. I like most not seeing AMP links and am always reminded how terrible Google is when someone shares a link with me and its just a big ugly google AMP mangled URL.
I switched to DDG before AMP link appears
Lucky for me ;)
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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> 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 I am the same, but i default to !sp (startpage.com) first. They claim: > You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all…
you do know that startpage.com "is now owned by an ad company" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
You say this as Google isn't an ad company x).
But yes, i know. I still use it, because i trust those guys to have a good-enough judgement on this. https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/
Maybe they're not perfect, but i'm convinced they are a hell lot better than submitting my data to Google. ;)
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#169Something I'd like to know as a user is how I can help improve search results on DDG
They have a 'Send Feedback' utility in the bottom right of search result pages.
Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#170I'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.
> they have noting to do with anything I care about Why is this good? For me personally, both FB and Google figured out that I'm into home renovation and all they keep recommending me is relevant stuff. So I consider it free research done for me :) Contractors, webshops, pretty images are all over my feed. I even press accept cookies for webshops I want to see more of their competition :)
> Why is this good?
Saving money instead of being manipulated to buy something I otherwise wouldn't is good for me and the environment.