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Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by rwl4 »

mrfusion wrote: post #80

I've actually been turning to reddit for a lot of my searches. Yes, you read that right, reddit. I found that a lot of times when I was looking for general advice from other people (recent examples: how to treat dandruff, how to start a garden) I actually get really well thought out answers from real people who have done the same things. And I know they're not trying to sell me anything or just get page views. Doing…

I do the same but with one twist for better results. I go to Google and search like this:

  site:reddit.com start a garden
Google is a much better Reddit search than Reddit is.

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by hahainternet »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #52
adrusi wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what way do you find it barely usable? I've used it for about a year and I find the results to be great. I don't think there's been a time when I couldn't find the result I wanted with ddg but could with google.

I've had a serious go at DDG 3 times now - last month I tried it but I ended up just using !g for every search and so went back to Google. The thing I use most often, and major frustration with Google, is limiting the search by time period : I wish the additional tools would be sticky. I did blind search engine testing and Google came out on top. That said Google is frustrating me more and more, especially now you ne…

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1734130?hl=en might be useful for you.

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by gkya »

rjzzleep wrote: post #84
pielud wrote: post #55

The killer feature for me with ddg (as a programmer) is the ! searches for documentation: !php strstr !python os.makedirs !pypi requests !js String etc. This gives you a single search bar for all documentation, which is amazing. edit: formatting

ironically !c# brings you to a forbidden place :p

!csharp doesn't, which is even more ironic.

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by sdegutis »

laureny wrote: post #72
tosseraccount wrote: post #11

Duck duck is barely usable ... but they don't spy on you. The !g and !b commands make it my first choice. If the results aren't getting what you want, try the search on google or bing. IF you don't mind Sergy Brin or Bill Gates tracking you. I still think there's room for a search engine that supports boolean(ish?) operations like AND, OR , NOT and NEAR. Providing links directly to the source and not a redirect to th…

> Duck duck is barely usable ... but they don't spy on you. 1. You don't know that. 2. No search engine ever spied on you when they started.

I wonder if it's possible to make a search engine that people can verify is not spying on them. One where the source is truly open source. Not just on github, but where anyone who wants to can ssh into the server and have full read-only access to the whole system to verify that the code they see is really what's running. Sure, there'd be some security things to work out to make it balance how easy it'd be to hack it, but maybe it's doable.

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by gkya »

ithkuil wrote: post #81

I'm impressed, it works quite well. However, just to put DuckDuckGo's 4 Mqpd into a broader context: Google 2013: 5.9 Gqpd Bing 2012: 3.1 Gqpd Not to put DuckDuckGo down or anything, but it's important to understand what a >1000x difference in scale means, in terms of operating costs and scalability issues. For example, for a single person is very easy to get hold of $10k but it's extremely difficult to get $10M. (I'…

Is Gqpd = giga queries per day?

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by josteink »

tosseraccount wrote: post #11

Duck duck is barely usable ... but they don't spy on you. The !g and !b commands make it my first choice. If the results aren't getting what you want, try the search on google or bing. IF you don't mind Sergy Brin or Bill Gates tracking you. I still think there's room for a search engine that supports boolean(ish?) operations like AND, OR , NOT and NEAR. Providing links directly to the source and not a redirect to th…

Duck duck is barely usable

On the contrary, I find Google barely usable these days, with everything covered in layers and layers of horrible bloat, random UX mess of the week and constant pestering about G+.

DDG is nice and clean, has features Google is (still) lacking and just gets me the results. I may resort to other search-engines (like Google) once a week or so, but at this point, there's no way I'm going back to having Google as default.

That's just not worth it.

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by timmclean »

sdegutis wrote: post #94
laureny wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Duck duck is barely usable ... but they don't spy on you. 1. You don't know that. 2. No search engine ever spied on you when they started.

I wonder if it's possible to make a search engine that people can verify is not spying on them. One where the source is truly open source. Not just on github, but where anyone who wants to can ssh into the server and have full read-only access to the whole system to verify that the code they see is really what's running. Sure, there'd be some security things to work out to make it balance how easy it'd be to hack it,…

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

Re: Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

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Post by teaneedz »

tosseraccount wrote: post #11

Duck duck is barely usable ... but they don't spy on you. The !g and !b commands make it my first choice. If the results aren't getting what you want, try the search on google or bing. IF you don't mind Sergy Brin or Bill Gates tracking you. I still think there's room for a search engine that supports boolean(ish?) operations like AND, OR , NOT and NEAR. Providing links directly to the source and not a redirect to th…

It replaced Google search for me. I like adding !sp whenever I feel like getting Googly ;)
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