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I'm very glad that Gabriel was brave enough to start a new search engine and stuck to the project, which really paid off. We have a viable, non-tracking alternative to Google now.
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
Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."
I like DDG in theory a lot, and have switched my default search to it, but admittedly still end up going back to Google a lot, as DDG often doesn't bring up what I'm looking for, whereas it'll be the first result on Google.
I use !g more than I type standard queries, but I use !g once for every hundred times I type !yt, !w, !gh, &c. The proper search results are sometimes inferior to Google, but the bang queries make it more useful for me regardless.
Can anyone who uses duckduckgo tell me whether it does anything to hide your identity when you tell it to drop to google using !g ?
Google search, no privacy disclosure.
That's my first fallback if straight DDG doesn't work. I'm falling back less often (about one month of solid DDG use now).
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I think one fewer syllable and fact that neither yahoo or google were commonly written (or said) make them better names. I use DDG, but think the name is terrible. It also can't become a verb as easily, as google has.
True - but saying that I'll Google it then jumping on Duck Duck Go is more amusing.
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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.
Great job to DDG! Remember to change your default search engine: http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216440-chrome http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216441-firefo... Let's make protecting privacy a good business decision.
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Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."
Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.
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Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."
A lot of Amazon.com is still Perl...
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Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.
Nonsense. That quote comes from Common Lisp, it was just hopelessly bastardized by some perl people (like everything else in that language :P).
Just because a principle applied to something first does it now mean it should now never apply to anything ever.