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Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by systems_glitch »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #146
jbm wrote: post #26

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> I am so weak-willed that there is the horrific danger that I will start believing them That's what "Manufacturing Consent" isn't it? That entire concept seems sound and passes the smell test. People see things repeatedly from authoritive-sounding people and they believe it (in the case of the book, by governments and their catspaws). There is no reason a search and social bubble wouldn't wind up with a similar outc…

Is my authority defiance resource just cranked up to 11? I don't even like those groups I tend to agree with, and when I do find myself agreeing with them I silently sit there wondering if that somehow means I am wrong. I only said it sarcastically about the original commenter because it's difficult to believe that anyone could truly be like that. Sure, we're all aware of the dregs who seem to form their political be…

It's estimated that 50-70% of the world has no inner monologue.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by franczesko »

They used to share traffic data at duckduckgo.com/traffic.

The website is unavailable anymore (wonder why?), but before switching to Brave search (way better than DDG imo) it was noticable, that the number of queries had stalled.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by karaterobot »

orhmeh09 wrote: post #192
yegg wrote: post #113

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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

This seems incredible to me. The raw results are obviously very close. I get the same results in the same order for searching 'uefi hack': https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack And the exclusion filters fail identically, on "uefi hack -bootkit": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit And partially succeed identically: 'uefi h…

I was going to say that if the two search engines index and rank in a similar way, you would expect the search to be similar. But, for the `uefi hack` search, the results really are pretty close to identical, and when I do the same search on Kagi and Google, I get different results. I still don't know if it proves anything, but it's a little suspicious.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by commoner »

conradfr wrote: post #74

I use the widget and it's freeing to do silly searches without having them tied to my Google account. The problem is that you can't remove the Google equivalent on a Pixel phone, so it's really wasted screen space and feel like anti-competitive. Until someone in the EU commission notices it and regulates it I guess...

You can remove the Google search bar from a Pixel phone or any other Android phone by replacing the launcher.

I recommend Neo Launcher, which is free and open source: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by ifyoubuildit »

Jcampuzano2 wrote: post #44
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #5

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I can see both sides to the argument. I personally don't mind deletion of antivax stuff because I'm not antivax. But I can see the point of view those mentioning what happens when there is deletion/censorship of things in the future that I could have interest in. We also do know that there exists "some" subset of things that were mentioned that seemed antivax on the surface but did actually turn out to be true or at…

> I personally don't mind deletion of antivax stuff because I'm not antivax

The term antivax is a problem.

Very few people are actually anti all vaccines, and nobody should be pro all vaccines for everyone all the time. There have been actual truly failed vaccines, are you "antivax" if you wouldn't volunteer to take them? Should articles about past failed vaccines be censored from the internet? Of course not.

The term is sloppy and careless, but people love it, probably because it lets you be part of a team. But everybody means something different by it.

Nobody should presume any new implementation of a class is good just because there have been previous successful implementations. Reality doesn't make things so easy for us.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by furyofantares »

planetafro wrote: post #178
furyofantares wrote: post #94

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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.

Actually so does ChatGPT with browsing.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by yegg »

prettychill wrote: post #176
yegg wrote: post #144

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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

Sorry, looks like this new feature is being re-tooled today, but should be up again within a few days!

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by yegg »

caractacus wrote: post #171
yegg wrote: post #67

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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 f…

Sorry to hear that. Our process is to follow-up with everyone, so I'm not sure what happened. If you want to DM me on Twitter I can look into it.
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