Welcomed change! I never remembered whether to type duckgogo.com or duckduckgo.com - either of them i had to type twice due to normal fat-fingering :)
It's like Duck Duck Goose
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
Incognito search in the UK here: 1st result: Wikipedia Duck 2nd: Wooden Ducks 3rd: BBC duck recipes 4th: Toilet duck cleaner 5th: BBC iplayer, Sarah and Duck It goes on. The only mention of duckduckgo on the first 5 pages is this recent news
Which search engine? Or, did you just assume the search engine here?
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#193This is cool and I hope it leads to a rebranding. While I like DDG a lot, the name has always felt off-putting to me. I'd much rather say "I'll just search Google" than "I'll just search DuckDuckGo." Does an extra syllable really cause that much additional friction?
It's not the number of syllables, it's the particular flow of those syllables and the number of full stops. I'm sure there's a linguistic term for what I mean. Consider "I'll just Googlify it" or "I'll just Dodogo it", which both sound better than "I'll just DuckDuckGo it".
Just duck it.
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#194DDG is great - have been using it for months and I really enjoy the results. Google searches seem to be more of an echo chamber whereas DDG results seem to be more representative across a broad spectrum of sites.
I wouldn't say it's better than Google - it's a bit worse for non-English queries, and similar for English ones. Both have in common that if they don't know the answer to your query, they assume they know better than you and give you unrelated results. I'd prefer if they'd just print "Can't find anything" and let me tweak my query instead of sending back random results.
It's difficult in general to know that the results you're returning are definitely not what the user wants. You're not seeing them think that they know better than you, you're seeing lower confidence results.
Perhaps search engines could just not show you lower confidence results, but then you risk making it impossible to find certains kinds of content, and you forgo the rarer, but still extant wins, you get from showing those results.
Users can generally tell when results aren't relevant and will reformulate anyway.
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#195reminder that most praise you find about DDG in popular online communities (e.g. HN, Reddit, /g/, etc...) is mostly by their own paid influencers and shills, Weinberg even bragged about it once on Quora and deleted it later. The only question that he cares about: what's his exit number?
I use and like DDG and I assure you I am in no way paid by DDG. If they bragged about it on a forum I would expect there to be an archive of it somewhere (as well as discussions about it). Googling (and ducking) yields no articles or discussions about this.
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#196This is not charity. Google needs DDG to exist, because Google is a monopoly. That economic reality is increasingly translating into political calls for GOOG to be broken up. Supporting DDG is just Google preparing for future legal and legislative/regulatory battles. They can point to DDG and say, "Look! There is another search company!" Google also probably accelerated this potential action to this week because they…
> Google needs DDG to exist DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.
Whatever
Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#197Don't fall for it duckduckgo! If you change your name to duck, your name will no longer be searchable! It's a trap!
When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
In the US for me it's the 4th link after wikipedia, the restaurant results insert, wikitonary, and Merriam-Webster. Not bad honestly.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't understand that.
GoDaddy manages to seem even more of a cheesy web 1.0 company than they are because of the name. It's like a TV ad company for the whole family, not something a programmer would find pleasing to behold.
> It's like a TV ad company for the whole family
I thought it was more of a sleaze connotation than a family one.
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#199Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#200Technical question: Since DuckDuckGo uses Bing Ads, and Bing Ads have tracking that allow for remarketing, is there a point? advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/audience-targeting/universal-event-tracking
Also, you can simply disable Ads in Settings. https://duckduckgo.com/settings