DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

Post by jsingleton » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 8:57 AM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #72

jsingleton wrote: post #67

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That link is pretty good at explaining the DNS delegation, TLS and NoScript. However, as DDG runs on AWS, they don't have sole control of their servers anyway. Edit: output of a DNS/Ping tool I wrote for a book: Enter a hostname or IP address: duckduckgo.com Performing DNS lookup of duckduckgo.com Complete, duckduckgo.com = 54.229.105.92 Performing reverse DNS lookup of 54.229.105.92 Complete, 54.229.105.92 = ec2-54-…

TIL! I didn't realize they ran an AWS stack. I've been using DDG for years (use !g about 1/3 of the time I think), and I just like having the alternative. I wish we had more search engines, but I also realize the barrier to entry is really high. Using AWS does make a lot of sense in their market. I thought their primary index was Yandex though, and they purchased supplemental data from Yahoo and Google?

Post by tagawa » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 9:34 AM UTC

volatilitish wrote: post #76

piyush_soni wrote: post #55

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The cynic in me says that it all starts like this. With multiple, gradual ToS changes, eventually, it will become like any other company out there. And what if Yahoo acquires DDG?

Isn't that basically the MO of every startup? * Offer something for free, with VC money. * Gain market share since you don't need to worry about profit. * Realise you need to make money, so start turning into the companies you stole market share from.

Post by rsspbrry » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 9:50 AM UTC

ausvisaissues wrote: post #19

0xmohit wrote: post #15

For the record, this isn't really news . A lot of details can be found at https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation https://duck.co/help/results/sources also states that they partner with Yahoo!, and in some regions and scenarios, Yandex and Bing.

Different topic: Why do they use www.duck.co as their development url and www.duckduckgo.com as their search engine name? The latter is just way too long to type. Especially for casual users who has google set at their main search engine. Compare URL lengths: duckduckgo.com 14 (10+4) google.com 10 (6+4) yahoo.com 9 (5+4) yandex.ru 9 (6+3) bing.com 8 (4+4) baidu.cn 8 (5+3) I really want to like duckduckgo, but the nam…

Post by digi_owl » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 10:12 AM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #11

ra1n85 wrote: post #9

Always loved DuckDuckgo - kinda came across as a search engine that didn't seek to takeover the world, and only sought to fill a (necessary) niche. That seems more genuine than "don't be evil".

Google originally won everyone over with superior results, the rest of it came pretty organically. The underdog is always everyone's favorite until they somehow wind up on top.

Post by StavrosK » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 10:41 AM UTC

enibundo wrote: post #68

MichaelGG wrote: post #45

I want to use DDG. I've made it my default search engine. But the result page is just so slow. Both in slow to load (v Google), and actual responsiveness. It's just slightly laggy, or at least it feels like that. Google has neither problem. I'm willing to put up with not-excellent relevancy, but the slowness is killing me. I'm using FF 49 64-bit on Win8. Am I anomalous or does anyone else feel this at all?

No slowness here. The only downside is the quality of results. Most of the time when searaching technical questions I get better results on google compared to ddg. It looks like ddg doesn't like stackoverflow.