If DuckDuckGo / Bing ever approach the popularity level of Google, how will they not suffer similar pressure to manipulate their search results?
I think the most pressure is from advertisers, right? Se depends on how much they love making money
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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#72My nit with DDG is that I like to run my iPhone in Dark Mode, but I really don’t like the dark mode rendering of DDG. I always browse in Private mode, so switching the session to light mode is totally unhelpful. I wonder if anyone else runs into this and found a workaround?
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#73Ddg is so good at this point I forget I’m not using Google. I only have to drop in a !g a couple times a month at most. I am actually surprised it is only 100M per day. I think it would be much bigger if there was actual fair competition.
specially for local results. thats where DDG is not upto the mark. Google has an advantage there.
BTW, I DDGed for the last 2 years and never been happier. They have improved tremendously
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#74I've used DDG full-time for over two years now. I honestly don't miss Google. Every time I use !g I'm reminded just how bad it's gotten. Between the SEO spam and ads I find myself scrolling at least halfway down the page to find anything even remotely relevant. I can't say that DDG always has the 'best' results, but at least they seem appropriate to what I'm searching for. One thing I do wish DDG has is webmaster too…
!g is some sort of brilliant marketing.
Me: "I don't see what I expected. I'll try Google."
Me two seconds later 9 out of 10 times: "Oh, Google also sucks for this query. Oh well."
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#75If DuckDuckGo / Bing ever approach the popularity level of Google, how will they not suffer similar pressure to manipulate their search results?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
Along these lines, why doesn't google introduce a paid search service without ads? My hunch is that no matter the price point, it would be a huge revenue hit compared to actual advertising payments. My other hunch is that it would make the non ad-free experience greatly cheapened in the eyes of the consumer, in the same way youtube with ads feels different after experiencing youtube premium.
They have Google Workspace, which is pretty similar, but more focused on small businesses.
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#77I've been switched to DDG for about 4 months now. I am loving the Ads I get in youtube now that google doesn't know what I am interested in they have noting to do with anything I care about. It's wonderful. DDG still has a way to go for really technical queries. I just can't get the same results about this error or that in Java. Until then I'm 100% DDG for personal and 100% google for work.
I have the same experience - my two major issues with DDG are the results for technical searches, and I wish that it showed more basic info for businesses like phone number/address/hours without me having to click around a bunch.
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#78Do DDG use any 3rd party search results by default? (for non-!g queries and the like)
Yeah they do have their own index but the majority of results come from Bing. There are several search engines using Bing as the backbone, but Microsoft doesn’t appear to want to have any new search partners. Both the google and Bing search indexes are controlled by trillion dollar companies, so alternative search engines are operating under agreements with either company.
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#79Do DDG use any 3rd party search results by default? (for non-!g queries and the like)
Yeah they do have their own index but the majority of results come from Bing. There are several search engines using Bing as the backbone, but Microsoft doesn’t appear to want to have any new search partners. Both the google and Bing search indexes are controlled by trillion dollar companies, so alternative search engines are operating under agreements with either company.
A search engine company without their own search engine is not very promising. I'm assuming/hoping they have plans to serve most queries themselves in the future.
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#80To the webmasters here on HN: Do you see this reflected in higher user numbers coming from DuckDuckGo over time? I run a website too. Let me check the stats... So according to Google Analytics over the last 30 days, 0.7% of my visitors came from DDG. Not bad. That is more then half of Bing, from which 1.2% of my visitors come. Over time, the DuckDuckGo trend does not look as exponential as in their chart though. More…
56.8% google
38.6% direct
1.44% bing
0.34% startpage
0.3% ecosia
0.27% DDG
But I feel like non-google users are more likely to block GA, so these stats are probably skewed.