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Ask epi0Bauqu anything about running DuckDuckGo
- dan_sim 17y agoI give that guy a couple of year and I think he will be able to compete with Google or Bing. What he's doing is amazing and this search engine is sometimes my default in firefox until I have to search for something really hard to find that only google can find the answer (I tried bing but it's not as efficient as google... yet...)
- kaddar 17y agoWhat he is doing isn't amazing so much that it is only one person doing it. He uses the bing link graph, though.
- jacquesm 17y agoCheck out http://gigablast.com/ http://gigablast.com/ , another one person search engine.
- dmoney 17y agountil I have to search for something really hard to find that only google can find the answer What sort of things?
- dan_sim 17y agoMostly .NET errors that nobody care about.
- aswanson 17y agoFor all my tech related queries the answers have been better than Google's. My only problem has been in breaking that mental association of "find an answer" with "type a 'g' ".
- DanBlake 17y agoRespect for this guy. I built and sold a social search engine a few years ago and its incredibly hard to get user adoption. We got to about 50k uniques a day and that was as high as it got. I knew I was in for trouble, because even I kept using google though the results from our engine were superior. Its hard to combat that type of brand loyalty/pattern when even the founder of another search engine wants to continue using google.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoThank you the respect. For the record, Duck Duck Go is my default and Google now feels weird to me. But I agree; combating that entrenchment is pretty insane.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoYou can ask me anything here too if you want.
- altano 17y agoI think your duck's bow tie is adorable and it always makes me smile.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoHah, thx. Credit goes to my sister: http://evejweinberg.com/ http://evejweinberg.com/
- zitterbewegung 17y agoWhy should I use duckduckgo over any other search engine?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoWay more zero-click info, less spam, less clutter, more readable results etc. http://duckduckgo.com/about.html http://duckduckgo.com/about.html
- zitterbewegung 17y agoTrying it out for a day. Seems usable at least. I like the zero click info.
- mapleoin 17y agoDo you use any learning algorithms to learn from user clicks on ddg? Which ones?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoNot yet.
- jhancock 17y agoWhat are you willing to tell us about your revenue model and profitability? I have used your search a few times and like it. Just haven't committed it to muscle memory yet ;). Where is the Chrome plugin that uses duckduckgo instead of google? firefox plugin?