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There's still an issue of trust, why should I trust Duck Duck Go any more than a company that has a reputation to lose? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

by acg 17y ago

epi0Bauqu 17y ago
What could be done in this area to make you trust? EFF certification of some sort?
- jackowayed 17y ago
  I think his point was not that you need to go yet farther to court the privacy niche but that you're going to have a very tough time doing so, no matter how hard you try. Google makes billions of dollars a year off of their search, so people can have pretty good faith that they won't do anything to make people wary of searching with them. So you'll catch a small niche of crazies (but small in the scope of the Internet may still be pretty big) and maybe get yourself in some more people's minds as "that place to search if I ever need to run search queries that might get subpoenaed." The solution, though, is NOT to invest lots of time, energy, and money into make people think of you as better for privacy. You're currently the only search engine that logs so little, so you've got that niche (within people who know about you). Go court some other niches and work on making your overall product better.
Goladus 17y ago
That's a question you have to answer yourself. Right now, Duck Duck Go is the only search service I've ever heard of even trying to make that promise. As an aside, there are a couple issues with companies and reputation. First is that a company might risk its reputation if the rewards are worth it. Second is that a company might care about its reputation but simply fail to hold true to it. Finally, a company might care about its reputation some of its employees might not.
- sounddust 17y ago
  http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/ask-com-to-offer-anonymous-search-with-askeraser.ars http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/ask-com-to-offer-...
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shawndrost 17y ago
And that's the problem with trying to appeal to paranoid users: they can always find something else to be paranoid about.

There's still an issue of trust, why should I trust Duck Duck Go any more than a company that has a reputation to lose? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

by acg 17y ago

There's still an issue of trust, why should I trust Duck Duck Go any more than a company that has a reputation to lose? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

epi0Bauqu 17y ago

What could be done in this area to make you trust? EFF certification of some sort?

jackowayed 17y ago
I think his point was not that you need to go yet farther to court the privacy niche but that you're going to have a very tough time doing so, no matter how hard you try. Google makes billions of dollars a year off of their search, so people can have pretty good faith that they won't do anything to make people wary of searching with them. So you'll catch a small niche of crazies (but small in the scope of the Internet may still be pretty big) and maybe get yourself in some more people's minds as "that place to search if I ever need to run search queries that might get subpoenaed." The solution, though, is NOT to invest lots of time, energy, and money into make people think of you as better for privacy. You're currently the only search engine that logs so little, so you've got that niche (within people who know about you). Go court some other niches and work on making your overall product better.

Goladus 17y ago

That's a question you have to answer yourself. Right now, Duck Duck Go is the only search service I've ever heard of even trying to make that promise. As an aside, there are a couple issues with companies and reputation. First is that a company might risk its reputation if the rewards are worth it. Second is that a company might care about its reputation but simply fail to hold true to it. Finally, a company might care about its reputation some of its employees might not.

sounddust 17y ago
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/ask-com-to-offer-anonymous-search-with-askeraser.ars http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/ask-com-to-offer-...
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shawndrost 17y ago

And that's the problem with trying to appeal to paranoid users: they can always find something else to be paranoid about.