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Am I nuts, or has DDG been around for a very long time? Wikipedia says it started in 2008, but for some reason it's lodged in my mind along with Excite, Alta-V
by douche 11y ago
Am I nuts, or has DDG been around for a very long time? Wikipedia says it started in 2008, but for some reason it's lodged in my mind along with Excite, Alta-Vista, AskJeeves and the other pre-Google search engines.
- dalke 11y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/about https://duckduckgo.com/about says "DuckDuckGo began as an idea" on February 29, 2008, and on September 25, 2008 "DuckDuckGo was announced to the Hacker News and reddit communities". FWIW, here's the original HN announcement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142 .
- antod 11y agoYou weren't thinking of Dogpile were you? That was a pre Google meta search engine that sent your query to multiple search engines.
- jaredsohn 11y agometacrawler was another and was what I used prior to Google. Amusingly, it now forwards to a site powered by dogpile.