Where does DuckDuckGo get the money to keep this service alive?
Ads. Just not tracking-based ads, only keyword-based ads.
Thanks, that makes sense.
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#212reminder 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.
open a thread in 4chan's /g/ and ask them about it, many have a screenshot of his quora's post there
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest I've never noticed the filter bubble everybody is talking about with Google. They can infer a lot from context, like city or previous searches, however that's primarily helping users, because coming up with precise search queries is not something that normal people can do and even power users like us fail at it. I have been using DuckDuckGo because I'm making health related queries and I'm pretty scared…
If you're not a native english speaker working in tech, google will sometime show you (in my case) French forums or websites even if the query was entirely written in english. It is quite annoying, and i often get better results using ddg and !g than using google itself.
I have a similar problem sometimes.
When I'm in Japan, Google seems to try hard to give me results localized to Japan.
When I'm in the United States and need to get information about something in Japan, it can't cope with the fact that I'm not in Japan. Where Google thinks I am (even with location tracking turned off) is paramount. Even if I search google.co.jp, I get American results.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
You had to already know about it though. That is a foul. Or, more accurately, a water-foul.
You're making me feel down, Ma' llard. My wife and I used to breed ducks and have a duck farm. We were quack addicts, and quack dealers. I could go on and on.
Please do.
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#215Meta:
NamePros tech admin here. This hammered our servers so hard that we actually uncovered a fairly obscure bug in Nginx's FastCGI caching. It's gone unnoticed for years, including during rigorous load testing.
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#216I use DDG most of the time.
But for dev related stuff I use Google, results are simply better
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#217DDG 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.
As usual, I feel I need to point out that DDG gets all its results from Bing and Yahoo. https://duck.co/help/results/sources > In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in…
What this means is that they use 400 sources for things like Instant Answers and other widgets but Yahoo and Bing for all their organic search results.
So, the DuckDuckBot that you cited doesn't contribute to DDG's organic results?
90% of what Google returns to me is Wikipedia, IMDB, and other verticals anyway, so it's not that much different IME.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
open a thread in 4chan's /g/ and ask them about it, many have a screenshot of his quora's post there
Mind sharing some screenshot/archive links? I have no idea how to use 4chan
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#219Meta: NamePros tech admin here. This hammered our servers so hard that we actually uncovered a fairly obscure bug in Nginx's FastCGI caching. It's gone unnoticed for years, including during rigorous load testing.
More details please. :-) This sounds like it deserves a full article.
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#220This 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?
Also, rather than saying “Google it” maybe we can now say “Duck it”.
I can how that would be abused, as in: go duck yourself
Edit: somebody beat me to it.