On my iPhone 4 browser, I don't find any way to close the DuckDuckGo web page. Until I figure that one out, this new DuckDuckGo is YuckYuckNo (ha ha, I made that one up myself, I'm so Ducking funny!)
New DuckDuckGo design
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#92Here's the announcement I just posted on our blog: https://duck.co/blog/whatsnew Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to us during our public beta period! Please keep the feedback coming so we can quickly iterate. We really do listen to it all.
FYI, the /whatsnew site seems to be roughly unusable on my iPhone; I can't switch bullet without making some weird unreproducible gesture.
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#93I've never really bought into DDG, especially for its lack of features. It still can't match Google, but this is certainly a step in the right direction and gives me pause to think about using it at least once in a while now. Glad to see progress in search outside of Google for a change.
This post made me finally create an account here. I do admit that personalized searches improve result quality a lot, at least for some topics. But after using DDG as my main search engine for about a year, > especially for its lack of features just sounds wrong. On the contrary, I tend to feel really helpless when using Google because of the lack of DDG bang syntax. For me, DDG is like my perfectly customized search…
any good resources for learning how to effectively use DDG?
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#94Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example: The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly. On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his pic…
I get the same three top answers, the only difference being in what place they are. On Google it was Github/Twitter/LinkedIn while on DDG it was Twitter/LinkedIn/Github. No problems here.
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#95Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example: The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly. On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his pic…
> I think it is a mistake to concentrate on clean design on a search engine until the searching algorithm is not that good.
The team focusing on the design is, I'm sure, not the same team focusing on the search algorithm. I don't see any reason why the design team should stop improvements because of the search algorithm.
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#96Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example: The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly. On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his pic…
When I search "Baptiste Mispelon" in Google, the first three results are:
(1) Ad for Christianity
(2) GitHub Profile
(3) Twitter Profile
When I search the same thing on DuckDuckGo, the first three results are:
(1) Twitter Profile
(2) LinkedIn Profile
(3) GitHub Profile
I definitely think that the first couple of results on DuckDuckGo are as useful as those produced by Google, if not more so.
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#97I am a not a big fan of all the results being down the left hand side of the page. Considering how the top fancy gadget thing seems to extend well past the right of my page with silly right arrow buttons it seems a lot of the screen is just being wasted and it would be nice to have the results at least centred.
You can move the results into the center by going to Settings > Look & Feel > Placement, and select "Middle".
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry but this is pure spam in this context. I think it would be far more prudent to submit this as its own post.
Come on, DDG is not storing datas, neither do we. This was a good feedback and we're looking for more? Beside you know how hard it is to get just a fraction of attention from the community unless you game the stats... Thanks for downvote :-S
Sorry, but I have to agree with malnourish here. I could understand you posting this, but not as a reply to my comment, which happen to be at the top of the page. If you think it's interesting enough for HN, submit it as a "Show HN".
But if you want my feedback, have it: for your "don't track" claim, I could trust you (after all, I have to trust someone in the end), but just loading the homepage send my data to Youtube (video) and Mixpanel (analytic).
Even your advertised feature, "preview the site before you browse it" is not exactly privacy-friendly. It just load the page in an iframe (if you guys want to do it right, see the ixquick-proxy on startpage and ixquick).
Also about the design, I don't think everything should be flat, but I just can't bring myself to like it. It feels like a '90s site.
Sorry for being harsh, but you pretty much asked for it.
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#99Interesting to see that many of their "whatsnew" examples use Yandex[1]. Is that a new partnership? [1] http://imgur.com/3tBrS7h
Nice catch -- this is interesting. Has Yandex ever had any privacy concerns? How did this partnership come about? Why is DDG leveraging Yandex?
I imagine it all still goes through DDG, so it would be very difficult for Yandex to disambiguate more than a short stretch of a stream of search queries (let alone associate them with a person) even if they wanted to.
There's still the issue of individual queries revealing something that the user doesn't wish revealed. It would be interesting to see how exactly DDG uses these other search engines as sources (and if they are able to make demands with regard to logging), but it's worth noting that DDG logs search queries itself (just not associated with a person), so that may not be possible to ask for.