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Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by caractacus »

yegg wrote: post #67
Minor49er wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DDG grew up being a whitelabeled version of Bing. As far as I understand, DDG has since started implementing more of their own search patterns and results, but has not completely removed themselves from Bing

We actually always had a bunch of our own stuff, and still do, as well as work with other partners. For example, the number one module on mobile is local, and we don't get any local stuff from Bing at all. Similarly, the number one module desktop is knowledge graph, and we don't get that from Bing at all either.

Sorry to piggyback on this. I applied for a Director role at DDG about a month ago. Had the autoreply which said DDG would follow up whether it was a yes, let's talk! or a nope, sorry. But nothing at all which was a bit disappointing. The role has been taken down for a few weeks now. I wasn't looking for a new position at all but the description strongly appealed and it was DDG, a company I'd admired for years (and fully remote!).

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by yamazakiwi »

ipaddr wrote: post #131
nfriedly wrote: post #71

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I'm not sure I would consider downplaying misinformation websites as "political meddling". In fact, I think I like DDG more for it.

Do we really need a search engine that censors incorrectly when we really need facts?

Similarly, some people can't handle the truth, but that is not the search engine's job to correct, is it?

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by aidenn0 »

tangotango2 wrote: post #123
yegg wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates

Thank you, I'be been using ddg for last 3 years as default in my phone and pc and its been awesome, dont need google anymore.

I use ddg as my daily driver for about 3 years as well. I do find that searching things like exact error messages from programs are a bit better with !g, but almost all other searches are comparable or better.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by nortonham »

nly wrote: post #167
mattkevan wrote: post #68

I've used DDG as my main search engine for about 4 years now. Until recently I found I was still having to go to Google for specific queries, mainly answering coding problems. But in the last 6 months or so, Google's results have gotten so bad and DDG has continued to improve to the point where I no longer bother with !g. When I do use Google I often find myself in the strange position of not actually being able to f…

I still have to use !g daily.

same

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by BobTheDestroyer »

yegg wrote: post #124
nomel wrote: post #2

I was able to convince my wife to switch for anything remotely "controversial", when, during the pandemic, we caught the relatively "real time" disappearance of several "against the grain" articles about covid [1]. By disappeared, I mean top results for the rough concept one day to not being able to find it, even with the exact title and text, the next. I want a search engine, more than a curated guide. [1] https://w…

x-posting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980374 (I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.) It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter but I subsequently put out a clarification in this help page with a much clearer (and detailed) explanation of how our news rankings actuall…

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Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by prettychill »

yegg wrote: post #144
pie420 wrote: post #134

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Please change the search results so that when I search "X + reddit" all of the search results are reddit, not just the first two.

Have you been using the new button we put there to do that? (I realize you still have to press the button, but curious if you are liking it.)

what button? I must be blind...

This would be very useful because "x reddit" is probably my most common search

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by certik »

yegg wrote: post #113
zerr wrote: post #102

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Isn't DDG a Bing front-end? So did Bing improve recently?

No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates

If you are not a Bing frontend, do you think it would be please possible to unblock our Fortran webpage at fortran-lang.org?

See here for details:

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-lang-no-longe...

Bing decided to remove it for some reason and DDG now also removes it from search results, presumably because it uses Bing underneath. For Google it's #1 page when you search "fortran".

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by planetafro »

furyofantares wrote: post #94
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #75

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I use chatgpt, the version with web browsing, instead of Google search some of the time and it does pretty well.

And takes 10x as long. It's good, but it's gotta get a whole lot faster (which I'm sure it will.) It would be really nice if it would in-line the source links it summarized piece of info from too.

The Bing version of ChatGPT does exactly this. It shows you the keywords on your prompts as well.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by Zren »

I originally switched just for the hell of it. But nowadays I get annoyed when I use Google since it doesn't have keyboard/arrow key shortcuts. ⬇, ⬇, Ctrl+Enter (open in new tab) or "/" to edit the search box is a great DDG feature.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by hateful »

yamtaddle wrote: post #129
chromakode wrote: post #99

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I wonder how much this can be explained by Google having a larger sample size of outgoing clicks to measure.

Could be that, but it feels like it weights search-term-proximity higher, and/or tracks more dimensions related to word-connectedness. Like, DDG is more likely to find me a page with all the words but with them scattered about, while Google will get more hits where the words are closer to one another, which is often better specifically for technical searches. Quoting rarely seems to help much, in either case. [EDIT]…

And Google groups the SO results, which is very handy. I find myself adding g! after I've seen the limited SO results in DDG just knowing I'll see them grouped and I can click "More from SO"
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