DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by asb » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:12 PM UTC

AdamSC1 wrote: post #4

philfrasty wrote: post #3

The key for switching to DuckDuckGo for me was to set it as the default searchengine / startpage on all browsers. While the relevance of search results is slightly (noticable) worse than Google, I think the tradeoff between privacy VS result-quality is worth it. Thanks for making such a great product!

Hey Phil, DuckDuckGo employee here - Be sure to use the 'feedback' button that you find on the search results page whenever you feel a search isn't up to standards. Our team has been working hard at increasing relevancy, but the best changes come when users let us know what they need. Since we don't filter bubble results ( https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b... ) results certainly feel differ…

I'd be really interested in a write-up of how you use and process feedback.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by JoelTheSuperior » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:16 PM UTC

libraryatnight wrote: post #36

AdamSC1 wrote: post #12

For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone. We wrote a post covering it in our newly launched blog: https://spreadprivacy.com/10-billion-fc7808c91343 It is always an amazing and humbling moment when we hit a new milestone in our metrics. Our team is so incredib…

Thank you for a great search engine! I swapped from Google as a default search to your guys' engine just shy of a year ago and haven't looked back. Keep up the great work :)

A thousand times this. Initially I wasn't a fan if I'm perfectly honest, but once I got my head around such brilliant things as the bang syntax I've been finding Google almost awkward to use by comparison. Being able to search Wikipedia with !w is brilliant.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by eganist » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:20 PM UTC

dchuk wrote: post #43

muninn_ wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the biggest turn off for me for the service. I use it, because I like it, but I really don't like the name.

If you use it, and like it, why does the name matter anymore? Is it an embarrassment thing?

Google is basically a verb at this point. It's hard to tell people to DuckDuckGo it.

GoDuck might be interesting. "GoDuck it."

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

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Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by jbmorgado » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:24 PM UTC

The only thing I miss in DDG compared to Google, is the ability to search in time during the last year.

As a researcher and doing some coding, it's invaluable for me to filter results that way.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by BEEdwards » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:25 PM UTC

I want to like DDG, but the results are never good.

Much like when I use bing, I more often than not I must re search for whatever I want on google to find it.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by AdamSC1 » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:26 PM UTC

asb wrote: post #51

AdamSC1 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Phil, DuckDuckGo employee here - Be sure to use the 'feedback' button that you find on the search results page whenever you feel a search isn't up to standards. Our team has been working hard at increasing relevancy, but the best changes come when users let us know what they need. Since we don't filter bubble results ( https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b... ) results certainly feel differ…

I'd be really interested in a write-up of how you use and process feedback.

Hey Asb,

That's a great idea - I'm not personally involved in the feedback process, but I'll certainly bring this up to the relevant team!

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by AdamSC1 » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:27 PM UTC

eganist wrote: post #53

dchuk wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use it, and like it, why does the name matter anymore? Is it an embarrassment thing?

Google is basically a verb at this point. It's hard to tell people to DuckDuckGo it. GoDuck might be interesting. "GoDuck it."

You could return to the neutral non-branded term of 'search' it.

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by tdkl » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:30 PM UTC

Is there any official reason why DDG isn't among the list of possible search engines on Google Chrome Android build ?

Re: DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

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Post by chrisper » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 5:36 PM UTC

hedora wrote: post #17

AdamSC1 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Phil, DuckDuckGo employee here - Be sure to use the 'feedback' button that you find on the search results page whenever you feel a search isn't up to standards. Our team has been working hard at increasing relevancy, but the best changes come when users let us know what they need. Since we don't filter bubble results ( https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b... ) results certainly feel differ…

There was a long HN thread talking about DuckDuckGo results vs Google behavior. Some people are put off by the fact that you don't substitute synonyms as aggressively as google. A concrete example was "foss [search term]". Google seems to rewrite this to "[open source] foobar", even with bubbling off. I prefer the duck duck go behavior (and google's aggressive query rewriting drove me nuts back when I used google --…

I believe if you do "foss" (with quotation marks) in Google it will not rewrite it. But I am not sure.