I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try. More competition isn't just good for consumers, it's also good for the field of IR. I work in search quality at Google, and it's really exciting for me to see a result that another search engine returns that I don't understand. It inspires me to think of all the ways they might have returned it, and leads to a lot of neat ideas. For the same reason, I enjoy…
I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try. Give DuckDuckGo a try for a couple of weeks, you probably won't go back to whichever search engine you are using currently :-)
It doesn't work very well in Finland. I guess I'll be using google for a while, since internationalization usually isn't much of a concern for smaller startups.