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Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by stevenjohns »

__blockcipher__ wrote: post #39
stevenjohns wrote: post #30

After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…

Nit: “tengo dolor el estomago” does not read like valid spanish to me (pero no soy hablante nativo)

Edited the "el" to "de" :)

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by Jedi72 »

Google isnt even a good search engine any more. I tried finding my friends website, www.catbartlett.com.au, with the terms "Freelance graphic designer Cat Bartlett Perth Western Australia" - pretty specific, but the first page is nothing but LinkedIn profile links and random mentions of her in testimonials. If it takes thousands of $$ in SEO to get found, how is that a useful search engine? We might as well go back to human-submitted catalogues.

I think the Google vision is to become internet gatekeepers, not to be a useful tool for finding things. That's why they need to die.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by ma2rten »

clubm8 wrote: post #9
ma2rten wrote: post #5

This metric is meaningless, for all we know DDG could have become less helpful and people have to rephrase their queries more often than before. EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue.

>EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue. You made a comment stating "This metric is meaningless". You are not being downvoted because we misunderstood - you're being downvoted because you are wrong .

There were no downvotes when I made the edit.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by therein »

lliamander wrote: post #32
ColanR wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's all kinds of awesome 'bangs'. I realized it's actually easier to use the variety of google/bing search engines from ddg. google scholar: !gsc google images: !gi bing: !b

My favorites: etymology dictionary: !etym encyclopedia of integer sequences: !oeis

There is even !hn

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by mygo »

stevenjohns wrote: post #30

After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…

I switched away from Google to Bing on my iPhone because I like to Google in incognito mode for basically everything... and recently Google’s added some annoying friction to that.

I started Googling in incognito when Google decided to return “personalized” search results instead of standard results, a few years ago. I was always more interested in the normal results than whatever Google thought I specifically wanted to see. But, since this Summer when I switch to a fresh incognito mode session to do a Google search, I have to click on traffic lights and sidewalks multiple times just to see the first search result. And it always says I failed the first two tries even when I know I did it right. I end up having to do a minute of clicking on images just to do a search. It’s like I’m being punished for wanting to Google in incognito. It happened often enough on my phone for me to go screw this and switch the default search engine.

Bing’s search results just aren’t as good though. I often have to Google for some things, still. But now I’m trying Duck Duck Go.

By the way not sure why my own anecdotal experience is being downvoted. This is my own actual experience, not really an opinion piece.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by p2t2p »

kardos wrote: post #3

So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".

Just today my wife's "friend" tagged her in a photo without asking. Public photo with face and location and full name. The post is available to public as well. So who cares about privacy once again?

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by edoceo »

ColanR wrote: post #25
seibelj wrote: post #15

The average tech person has been switching away from Google products, and this filters down to their social networks, and then their networks, and so on. It's a big deal when the tech people decide to switch. For me, it was Chrome making me log-in to my account. Now I use Firefox, DDG, ublock, privacy badger, etc. I think society writ large will begin to take privacy more seriously in the coming years. Edit FYI: If y…

There's all kinds of awesome 'bangs'. I realized it's actually easier to use the variety of google/bing search engines from ddg. google scholar: !gsc google images: !gi bing: !b

You can make your own and submit them too. It's all written in gasp PERL.

!pw generates password :)

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by joering2 »

Honest questions:

1) isn't it somewhat unlawful these days not to log anything on the people that are using your website? I'm all in favor of DDG, but can't they be liable if it would ever come up someone build and detonated bomb thanks to finding info via their search engine?

2) How do we know they haven't been served with NSL ? With NSA capable of breaking SSL, how do we know using DDG != using Google ?

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by dna_polymerase »

A search engine that has nothing more to offer than "privacy" isn't really worth my time.

Whenever I use DDG I get inferior search results. If privacy is your concern with Google use Startpage. That Bing/Yahoo mashup that DDG want to sell simply doesn't cut it for me (or any of my friends/colleagues).

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