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Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by yegg »

certik wrote: post #177
yegg wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If you are not a Bing frontend, do you think it would be please possible to unblock our Fortran webpage at fortran-lang.org? See here for details: https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-lang-no-longe... Bing decided to remove it for some reason and DDG now also removes it from search results, presumably because it uses Bing underneath. For Google it's #1 page when you search "fortran".

Yes, I'll look into it.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by aembleton »

bitL wrote: post #69
rlpb wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A huge benefit of DDG for me is that I can use it in a private browser window and it just works without stupid popups getting in the way. In contrast Google is far less useable for a quick search. This alone is why I have DDG as default and I only drop back to Google when I'm struggling to find what I want. Most of the time DDG is fine for me.

Recently so many unrelated sites pop up a tiny Google login window somewhere on the page, obstructing what I want to see, like as if Google was super desperate for more tracking and engagement. Like why would I like to login to Google while viewing a forum about skyscrapers if I just wanted to read about the progress of some construction? Passive-aggressive at its core.

Add the following line to your uBlock Origin filters to block these:

  accounts.google.com$domain=~google.*|~youtube.com|~gmail.com

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by aembleton »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #147

I love DDG and use it daily on all my devices, but I would take such marketing statement with some scepticism: Previously, DDG used to have a page [0] with usage stats, but it was deactivated somewhere around this time last year. Instead of a very clear data that was clearly showing the state of things (which had a rather concerning slowing of growth), we now have vague statents about #2 position in mobile market in…

The last copy I can find of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20221118045948/https://duckduckg...

Looks like number of searches was down from the previous year.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by nomel »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #95
ummonk wrote: post #17

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It was crazy to see suggestions to wear masks or claims that covid was airborne getting "fact-checked" by the media only to reverse their position months later after WHO put out new statements. In particular, the phrase "no credible evidence" was wildly thrown around without mentioning whether there were any credible high-powered studies that had even attempted to find evidence of the phenomenon.

With hindsight we can see their mistakes but isn't following the expert line the best thing to do in an uncertain situation?

This isn't quite correct. They eventually knew that masks worked, but delayed to help doctors get them: https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-mask-advice-was-becaus...

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by nomel »

Phil_Latio wrote: post #89
nomel wrote: post #15

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I somewhat agree. I don't mind if true falsehoods/spam is removed. The problem was, the "anti vax" label was applied to far too much, including things that were later found to be true. The article I was looking for was about intravascular injection of the vaccine, and its possible relation to adverse effects, which now has merit in 2023 [1]. [1] https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/inadvertent-injection...

"remains at the injection side" was one of the more blatant lies. The funniest lie was "a corona virus outbreak of a novel strain in close distance to a biolab which does experiments on corona viruses ... is without a doubt of natural origin!"

> "remains at the injection side" was one of the more blatant lies.

Correct: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313234/

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by croutonwagon »

dang wrote: post #193

On HN, it's not ok to use the title field to point out what you think is important about an article. That's called editorializing, and it's disallowed by https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : " Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " (Submitted title was "DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US".) If you want to say what you think…

Thanks for this clarification dang. I was confused as the title in my RSS feed was much different than when I clicked through to the thread. Thought there was an issue with my rss aggregator for a second.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by 1270018080 »

ipaddr wrote: post #194
1270018080 wrote: post #161

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Nobody knew if covid was airborne at the time, so the most correct answer was nobody knows. Some people got lucky by making things up on the spot and guessed it was airborne. At a certain point their confirmation bias and distrust of media broke their perception of the world and they became antivax etc, still no critical thinking taking place.

Many did not know and took extra steps like wearing a mask. What the experts did was say anyone wearing masks is racist against asian people. Their was no vaccine at this point so no one against it yet. The critical thinking can be found in the independent minds of those who made the choice to wear a mask. Listening to an expert didn't play out well.

Your genius is only validated by the experts eventually proving that wearing a mask was a good idea.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by nomel »

low_common wrote: post #60
nomel wrote: post #2

I was able to convince my wife to switch for anything remotely "controversial", when, during the pandemic, we caught the relatively "real time" disappearance of several "against the grain" articles about covid [1]. By disappeared, I mean top results for the rough concept one day to not being able to find it, even with the exact title and text, the next. I want a search engine, more than a curated guide. [1] https://w…

Do you put "everything" in "quotations" all the "time"?

I used it to convey some external concept, rather than my own thoughts.

"controversial": Others called it controversial. I did/would not.

"against the grain": Others thought that there was a grain. I did/would not.

"real time": Not literal.

Maybe this is a regional/age thing?

edit: actually, asking ChatGPT why they're in quotes gives the similar answers as mine, so I guess it's not too odd. New session prompt with 4.0: "Why are some of these words in quotes?"

Fluff removed, same order as my answers:

> ... In this case, "controversial" could imply that the speaker doesn't personally find the topics controversial, but acknowledges that others may perceive them as such.

> ... indicating that it's being used in its typical idiomatic sense.

> ... Here, the quotation marks might be used to stress that the term isn't being used in its strictest sense.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by josephcsible »

nomel wrote: post #214
AlecSchueler wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With hindsight we can see their mistakes but isn't following the expert line the best thing to do in an uncertain situation?

This isn't quite correct. They eventually knew that masks worked, but delayed to help doctors get them: https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-mask-advice-was-becaus...

"delayed"? They lied.
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