http://duckduckgo.com would have been a much better choice!
This looks like a sock puppet account astroturfing for duckduckgo. I wouldn't expect them to resort to tactics like that.
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Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
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Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly, there was now "Why?" section to this new note. I'm surprised that Ubuntu has enough of an installed base for Google to have made a counter-offer. Also, isn't Bing powering Yahoo's search these days anyway?
Based on the amount of people downloading updates, Canonical recently guessed that there are about 12 million Ubuntu users worldwide.
Right - and there's about 350 million Firefox users in all, so that 12 million is Via: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
This looks like a sock puppet account astroturfing for duckduckgo. I wouldn't expect them to resort to tactics like that.
There are technologies awesome enough for people to want to evangelize for them. DuckDuckGo is one of them--it doesn't need sock puppets.
But it does seem a bit odd that the only participation in HN by this user has been posting comments praising DuckDuckGo!
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
#34http://duckduckgo.com would have been a much better choice!
This looks like a sock puppet account astroturfing for duckduckgo. I wouldn't expect them to resort to tactics like that.
Search engine is a competitive market, Pure astroturfing would not work if they are not truly awesome.
I myself appreciate this "advertisement" and will give it a try, but if the search sucks, it's easy enough to switch back.
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
#35Totally called this one: I don't think it's an accident that this announcement comes far away enough from the next release for there to be time for Google to make them a better offer. Even if that doesn't happen in the next release, this may be Canonical's way of showing their hand. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079909
Interestingly, there was now "Why?" section to this new note. I'm surprised that Ubuntu has enough of an installed base for Google to have made a counter-offer. Also, isn't Bing powering Yahoo's search these days anyway?
no. by end of 2010 (tentative).
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly, there was now "Why?" section to this new note. I'm surprised that Ubuntu has enough of an installed base for Google to have made a counter-offer. Also, isn't Bing powering Yahoo's search these days anyway?
no. by end of 2010 (tentative).
I wish they'd hurry up, Yahoo's Slurp is the worst crawler I've seen. The other day it had 113 connections open to one of our sites. Jeff Atwood has also blocked them from StackOverflow because they were taking up a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and generally behaving like tools.
I love flickr, but Yahoo Search needs to die.
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
no. by end of 2010 (tentative).
I wish they'd hurry up, Yahoo's Slurp is the worst crawler I've seen. The other day it had 113 connections open to one of our sites. Jeff Atwood has also blocked them from StackOverflow because they were taking up a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and generally behaving like tools. I love flickr, but Yahoo Search needs to die.
MSN is far worse.
On several of my sites, it routinely requests URLs that are 1) blocked in robots.txt and 2) have been 404 for years
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
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Why Bing and not DuckDuckGo? It is an excellent search engine, in many cases it has much better search results, and it logs no IP addresses.
Probably because your average guy or gal (the people Ubuntu would want to reach out to the most) have ever even heard of it.
No... because DuckDuckGo can't afford to pay them.
The announcement omits the part that Google is paying them for the spot on default search.
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
#39A couple of years ago Ubuntu went to Google asking for a revenue sharing deal, Google refused, even though they had done it many times before. Search was going to be Ubuntu's primary income in the netbook space. At the time Google probably thought they owned search. Its amazing what a little competition will do. I would love to see Firefox and Safari change their default search to Bing (I would still use Google). Who…
Google does a good job with marketing against Apple with "Open", it would do wonders for MS to market against Google with "Privacy".
Why does anyone think Microsoft protects your privacy any better than Google does?
FFS, Google was the ONLY search engine which went to court to protect your searches from collection under COPA: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-146420.html
Microsoft, Yahoo etc just handed their logs over.
Gmail's still the only webmail provider which uses SSL by default.
There are numerous similar cases.
Microsoft can't use "Privacy" to market against Google because they do less to protect your privacy that Google do.
(They could argue "we are less competent than Google are at doing things with the information we also collect, so you are less likely to get freaked out when our services appear to read your mind". However, I'm unconvinced that lack-of-competence is a winning marketing strategy. But hey.. it seems to be working for Sarah Palin, so what do I know...)
Re: Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
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Probably because your average guy or gal (the people Ubuntu would want to reach out to the most) have ever even heard of it.
It's not like they've heard of Bing either. And, isn't that the point?
Maybe it's just the Chicago market, but I can't make a single trip in my car without hearing a Bing radio ad. I'm pretty sure they're laying out a fair amount of marketing cash.
As another statistically irrelevant point, my mom who believes doing anything on the computer is "downloading" has started using Bing.