why duckduckgo instead of google?
New DuckDuckGo design
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Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I think it is a mistake to concentrate on clean design on a search engine until the searching algorithm is not that good. AFAIK Google's page ranking algorithm is well known, when I were in university I even heard stories that a student (going on the same class as me) reproduced the algorithms only on his own!" Dude they're working on it. Modern search isn't as easy as having a college student implement a crawler wi…
Thanks! We'd also encourage every developer to check out: http://duckduckhack.com/ The example reported doesn't seem to be an issue the organic links but if you find any at all, please let us know. Also, we're on the lookout for any instant answers that pop by default but are irrelevant for the query. If you see any, please let us know at https://duck.co/forum
The "Answers" /goodies link here just goes to the splash page. Do you know the correct page?
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#213Here's the announcement I just posted on our blog: https://duck.co/blog/whatsnew Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to us during our public beta period! Please keep the feedback coming so we can quickly iterate. We really do listen to it all.
http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
Carousels are definitely overused, but they can still be a solid choice, depending on your design goals. If you just want to make people look at more ads, then most people will not bother.
But, I clicked all the way through before reading the comments here because I found it a compelling way to tell their story.
edit: actually, I happily clicked through this: https://duckduckgo.com/about The "what's new" carousel did feel a little tedious.
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#214More search results than layout, but as a friend pointed out, "open source office suite" produces notably and significantly different top results in DDG and Google. Specifically: the DDG results don't rank the arguably top-rated open source offic suite (LibreOffice) at the top of the results page, instead showing an order suspiciously similar to that of Bing. Google (both logged in and out) puts LibreOffice at the to…
My Google isn't the same as yours, so you should stop reading so much into this. Besides, it's really the same results, just ordered slightly different. For me, Google shows pcworld->libre->open. DDG shows pcworld->open->libre, e.g. #2 vs. #3.
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#215The new design looks pretty slick. I really dig the bootstrappiness of it. I do, however, have a couple of nits. I couldn't figure out how to make the weather in centigrade, so I tried searching for this:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+palo+alto+in+centigrade
It came up with some interesting results. The images opened automatically for me (not sure why) and were a little off the mark. Ideally there would be a link to switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit, with maybe even a cookie to save your preference, although I don't know if that's very anti-DDG (does DDG store cookies for anything?). Yahoo "solves" this by having you go to weather.yahoo.ca to default to metric. At any rate, given that 95.5% of the world's population uses metric, it'd be a nice feature.
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey guys, if you're looking for an alternative search engine with a different flavor, we came up with a discovery search engine that allow you to preview results before getting there and overall an upgraded user experience. oh We're in the process of going https and we don't track your search as well;-) Your feedback would be very helpful. This way: http://www.psykoo.com
Since I won't see this again I thought I'd mention it - just becareful you might be violating a patent by displaying the resulting webpage of a link as an image. And I agree with the rest, this isn't the place for that.
I'm not the op, but do you know which patent?
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#217Very good job DuckDuckGo team! I was just thinking that I'd have to switch back to Google because of the poor results... but this new experience has given me some hope. What saddens me though is that we (as in "the users") still don't have a strong guarantee on the respect of our privacy. We still have to trust the DDG team. I know there is no easy technology to do it, but still, the whole thing is only marginally be…
Actually, the alternative exists already for a while. It is free software and not even in beta anymore. Check out http://yacy.net
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#218Dear Gabriel Weinberg, after so many posts on HN, I am still missing the point behind DDG. Can you tell me, the end user, what are other benefits of using DDG aside _privacy_ (given I am using chrome/incognito by default)?
I guess, first of all, believing google in terms of incognito mode is a strange thing. Especially on proprietary browser. I suggest to check out, what is free software and why it is important [1].
[1]. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#219More search results than layout, but as a friend pointed out, "open source office suite" produces notably and significantly different top results in DDG and Google. Specifically: the DDG results don't rank the arguably top-rated open source offic suite (LibreOffice) at the top of the results page, instead showing an order suspiciously similar to that of Bing. Google (both logged in and out) puts LibreOffice at the to…
My Google isn't the same as yours, so you should stop reading so much into this. Besides, it's really the same results, just ordered slightly different. For me, Google shows pcworld->libre->open. DDG shows pcworld->open->libre, e.g. #2 vs. #3.
I'm aware that Google targets its responses.
I've got my search history disabled (when logged in), and ran the second search in a logged-out session, to see if the results differed (that they don't is ... curious).
StartPage, however, claims to proxy its results anonymously, which makes the similarity with my Google search results ... interesting.
That said, for DDG not to return the leading open source office suite as its top result (similar to Bing's response) strikes me as a less-than-optimal situation.
SERP is the new Tarot.