While this is certainly an impressive feat, I've not found myself impressed with DuckDuckGo's results. I love the principles of having search results be free of personal information but, for a search provider that essentially collects and organizes other search engine's results, I always find myself back at Google. Often times the result I wanted was as many as 4 or 5 pages back, whereas with Google it's usually in the first 5 or so results, immediately seen on the first page.
DuckDuckGo included in Opera
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Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#22While this is certainly an impressive feat, I've not found myself impressed with DuckDuckGo's results. I love the principles of having search results be free of personal information but, for a search provider that essentially collects and organizes other search engine's results, I always find myself back at Google. Often times the result I wanted was as many as 4 or 5 pages back, whereas with Google it's usually in t…
Thank you for giving it a try! We're always trying to improve and to the extent you remember any specific examples we'd love to review them: http://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#23While this is certainly an impressive feat, I've not found myself impressed with DuckDuckGo's results. I love the principles of having search results be free of personal information but, for a search provider that essentially collects and organizes other search engine's results, I always find myself back at Google. Often times the result I wanted was as many as 4 or 5 pages back, whereas with Google it's usually in t…
Thank you for giving it a try! We're always trying to improve and to the extent you remember any specific examples we'd love to review them: http://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html
Sure, I'd be happy to. This is certainly a product I'd like to be using.
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#24While this is certainly an impressive feat, I've not found myself impressed with DuckDuckGo's results. I love the principles of having search results be free of personal information but, for a search provider that essentially collects and organizes other search engine's results, I always find myself back at Google. Often times the result I wanted was as many as 4 or 5 pages back, whereas with Google it's usually in t…
I've switched to using DDG in FireFox for the past couple weeks. It works fine for 80% of searches and occasionally surprises me with the zero-click box, but the other 20% of the time I have to use Google.
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#25While this is certainly an impressive feat, I've not found myself impressed with DuckDuckGo's results. I love the principles of having search results be free of personal information but, for a search provider that essentially collects and organizes other search engine's results, I always find myself back at Google. Often times the result I wanted was as many as 4 or 5 pages back, whereas with Google it's usually in t…
There's a different approach to DDG, which emphasises having a set of trusted sources rather than a powerful whole-web analysis as Google does. DDG often misses the wanted result, but often gives the result much higher up than Google.
I use Google more than I do DDG, but I use DDG enough that I miss the DDG shortcuts quite a bit when using Google: I recommend spending more time with DDG. The !hn shortcut, for instance, is quite useful around here.
There is a Chrome extension that allow DDG searches while keeping Google as your default:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/edacflbhpmcimdanpf...
What I'd like to see is a DDG/Google search toggle, or a pop-up selector such as Firefox has.
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#26Can you shed any light on the deal terms? That search box is a major source of revenue for browsers. Did you undercut the other search engines?
I know it's sensitive business information but any information you can provide would be great.
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#27They should consider Blekko, too. I've found some very relevant results on it, like if I was looking for a review of a laptop or something like that.
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#28Can you shed any light on the deal terms? That search box is a major source of revenue for browsers. Did you undercut the other search engines? I know it's sensitive business information but any information you can provide would be great.
Sorry, I cannot comment on the terms.
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#29Can you shed any light on the deal terms? That search box is a major source of revenue for browsers. Did you undercut the other search engines? I know it's sensitive business information but any information you can provide would be great.
There's no way DDG can outbid Google or Bing. Also, it's not the default search where all the money is so they probably didn't have to beat out the big dogs to get into the list.
Re: DuckDuckGo included in Opera
#30DuckDuckGo needs to change their name, imo. Secondly, they need to reduce the number of links you have to click through to get to a site you are looking for. The disambiguation step takes too long.