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Why it was squatting?
If you own a domain you have no intent to use, which someone else may conceivably want, you're squatting.
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#312I love DuckDuckGo! Been using it for years!
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Maybe it's a geographic thing? I feel like anyone who grew up in a region where duck, duck goose was a common game for children to play wouldn't be too confused about the name. Not that being confused about the name or disliking it is a bad thing. But I like the name, and it's part of the reason I chose to start using DDG. If they changed it to something more generic, I'd be less likely to keep using it because I'd f…
Oh, I'm fully familiar with the game it's referring to. I just don't understand the connection between a serious search engine and a silly child's game. Is it some kind of inside joke? I just don't get it. I have nothing against the child's game; it just makes no sense to anyone that they named it after that, and it's not an easy name to pronounce or type. Bottom line: It sounds, feels, and looks bad on them.
I still remember when 'googol' was my 2nd grade answer to 'no, I like it thousands better, no millions better, no billions better, no googol better!'
And somehow that silly abstraction for "a big number number than yours" became a mega-behemoth of a corporation.
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Personalized results
How? I'm at work (so tracking me personally by IP is probably hard since there's hundreds of different people using the same IP) and using an incognito window. Using a different browser (that I used once or twice), incognito again, gives me the same result.
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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.
> So, the DuckDuckBot that you cited doesn't contribute to DDG's organic results?
Correct.
> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.
Traditional links = organic results.
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My partner and I use "let me quack that" instead of "let me Google it".
Heh. That works really well in English. (Wondered if I could use this in Dutch too, but decided against it due to the seminal connotations of ‘kwak’…)
You'd likely be able to recognize DuckDuckGo users by their black eyes.
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DDG just uses Bing, the existence of DDG is irrelevant to this, Bing is what counts.
Agreed, and you shouldn't be down voted for it. I like DDG, and use it, but it's mostly a pretty front end on a now-deprecated Bing API. If Bing shut down, DDG wouldn't be far behind. I've never seen a DDG crawler in any of my logs, though I've seen plenty of Google and Bing (and others). DDG does some nice instant answer and bang stuff, but the actual deep search results are all Bing (and maybe Yandex?)
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967
The DDG crawler is not used for organic results, only for stuff like the widgets. All organic results are from Bing and Yahoo (and possibly Yandex).
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> Google needs DDG to exist DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.
I thought DDG had its own indexer as well, and aggregated from several sources, including Bing.
Their own crawler is only used for widgets and stuff. All the organic results are from Bing and Yahoo.
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> Google needs DDG to exist DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.
is that literally true? I thought not
It's true. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967