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Re: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

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Post by ScroogeMcDoug »

organic_tech34 wrote: post #8

Privacy Statements are the tech equivalent of calling food organic. You need a reputable third party to audit your practices. Or your software needs to be open source so anyone can see what you're doing. I'll be switching from using DDG because of this. I don't trust Yahoo, and I barely trust DDG.

Can just use Tor for it. DDG still maintains a .onion, and I don't think I've ever gotten a captcha trying to search Bing via Tor. If you care about privacy enough to stop using a specific service entirely over assumptions, then I don't see how you could ever outright trust a service to respect their stated privacy policy anyways.

Re: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

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Post by cpplinuxdude »

Please help me understand why DuckDuckGo decided for the query to go in the URL, as opposed to being encrypted on the client before being sent to the server as a get or a post.

Most users probably have their browsing history switched on, and synced with their friendly browsing software provider anyway, totally reversing any privacy advantage a user might potentialy gain by using DuckDuckGo.

Re: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

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Post by stinos »

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.

Might be the query then, I usually get the proper SO result as one of the first 3 matches. Anyway if you're getting results that are really off, hit the 'Send feedback' button. A DDG employee here on HN claimed they use this actively to make results better - hard to teel if that is so, of course.

Re: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

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Post by techthroway443 »

ausvisaissues wrote: post #51
SwellJoe wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't remember the last time I typed in a search engine URL. I type my queries into my browser URL field and let it do the right thing. When I want Google, I use "!g query" (because DDG is my default, and that's how you tell it to redirect the query to Google). Under what circumstances do you type in the name of your preferred search engine?

When I want to use the non-default search engine (non-default is usually ddg). When trying a search engine for the first time. When using a public computer. Biggest problem is on mobile. On Chrome (for iPhone), I have the following options: 1. Google 2. Yahoo! 3. Bing I don't see any way to add a search engine not on the list.

> I don't see any way to add a search engine not on the list

Then that's a problem with Chrome. Using Safari on iPhone you can set DDG as your default search engine.

Re: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

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Post by ForHackernews »

nl wrote: post #40
robszumski wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So they data mine this traffic at the nameserver level, just to reasonably say that DDG doesn't share info? Making it technically your computer sharing the info, by way of their forced implementation? Seems like the ad blockers are making the right move here.

So they data mine this traffic at the nameserver level, just to reasonably say that DDG doesn't share info? What does this mean? If you mean nameservers might get to see your IP, that isn't true. At most they'll see your primary DNS resolver's IP, but if you use Google DNS or Open DNS they will only see that (I've implemented CDNs, and this is a very big problem for them if they operate at the DNS level - which most…

> if you use Google DNS

> Afraid to give Google my search queries

>> I'll give them all of my DNS lookups instead

Re: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

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Post by [deleted] »

digi_owl wrote: post #87
Zikes wrote: post #11

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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.

The basic problem with Google is the age old software engineer problem, not knowing when enough is enough. They kept tweaking results and trying to be helpful, and over time building a "bubble" around the individual user rather than trying to produce the objectively best results based on the query.

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Re: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

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Post by pttrsmrt »

jsingleton wrote: post #82
pttrsmrt wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supertip: Use !sp instead of !g to get googles results but without the tracking.

Looks like https://startpage.com uses http://www.routit.nl

Interesting. Source? Maybe they're hosting? Both are based in the Netherlands. http://www.routit.nl/oplossingen/cloud/
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