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Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by tippytop »

xpose2000 wrote: post #46

DDG is headed in the right direction. But it still isn't quite ready for me to use it daily. I start typing a query in and have to wait a minute wondering why the suggestions aren't showing up. I am completely used to how Google works. A critical feature I would like to see are real-time search results that Google added a few years ago. Autocomplete suggestions are also critical.

I use the Wikipedia auto-suggest url [1], it works great for my needs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=...

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by stevelaz »

ck2 wrote: post #16

I have to admit I was skeptical about DDG chances but hard work and being in right place at the right time with privacy has given it the success it deserves. (and it's written in perl of all things) ps. bonus points for deleting eHow from results

Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by bennyg »

shmerl wrote: post #37
carb wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a play on the name of a popular children's game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose

I've never heard of this game. I thought that the name hints to the duck test: "if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test I.e. that Duck Duck Go is what it looks it is - it's a search engine. And not some tool which secretly harvests data of its users for its own benefit.

Interesting your mind went there. It's fascinating to see how people categorize things based on prior knowledge and experience.

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by Zikes »

carb wrote: post #23
andrewcooke wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

huh. ok, can someone explain the name, please? i think it must be specific to some (american?) culture.

It's a play on the name of a popular children's game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose

Google, Bing, et al are ducks and DDG is the goose?

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by lostlogin »

ck2 wrote: post #16

I have to admit I was skeptical about DDG chances but hard work and being in right place at the right time with privacy has given it the success it deserves. (and it's written in perl of all things) ps. bonus points for deleting eHow from results

I didn't realise they had done that to ehow. I wonder if they could kill some of the region specific crap. If you search for a company here in Auckland you get these junk sites (localist, hot frog, finda) that have out of data that's been scraped an age ago and for some reason ranks high. This would probably be a deciding factor in browser choice for me.

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by fennecfoxen »

stevelaz wrote: post #52
ck2 wrote: post #16

I have to admit I was skeptical about DDG chances but hard work and being in right place at the right time with privacy has given it the success it deserves. (and it's written in perl of all things) ps. bonus points for deleting eHow from results

Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."

Last I heard the New York Times was 'still' running Perl as well, and they're pretty big...

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by schrodingersCat »

trafficlight wrote: post #44
Kiro wrote: post #40

Is there any reason to switch if you don't really care about privacy? For me DDG is just a skin on top of the Bing search index with a silly name. Why would I use it?

Bing is only one index source. They have their own crawler, plus they pull from dozens of other sources. http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-source...

This myth won't seem to die! Thanks for posting the link

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by ufo »

Kiro wrote: post #40

Is there any reason to switch if you don't really care about privacy? For me DDG is just a skin on top of the Bing search index with a silly name. Why would I use it?

I kind of like the !bang syntax for searches. Its easier than curating a big list of specific search engines (stackoverflow, wikipedia, amazon, google, ...) yourself.

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by schrodingersCat »

yaddayadda wrote: post #42
jmilkbal wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, it's just a redirect to Google with your query filled in for the appropriate query string argument. If you want to use Google privately, use Start Page ( http://startpage.com ) or Ixquick ( http://ixquick.com ).

How do the Start Page and Ixquick search engines differ?

ixquick is its own thing, but startpage mostly gets its content from google. If you want a secure way to search (mostly) google, use startpage. I miss scroogle...

Re: DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

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Post by alex_c »

ck2 wrote: post #16

I have to admit I was skeptical about DDG chances but hard work and being in right place at the right time with privacy has given it the success it deserves. (and it's written in perl of all things) ps. bonus points for deleting eHow from results

We've been reading epi0Bauqu's posts about DDG here for... what is it now? Over 3 years? At first it seemed like a wonderfully quixotic project - a new, home-grown search engine? Yeah right!

But then a year passed, then another, and traffic was up, and then it was up some more, and it seemed like he would never give up... at some point it stopped looking quixotic, and started to be a joy to watch. Will love to see what the future will bring.

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