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Two questions: Are you an employee, investor, or other interested party? Is there not one good benefit of this search engine that you can put in to words?

by blueben 17y ago

dcurtis 17y ago
Just use it for a week, and you'll see. For many things, the results are better than Google. (And it's not just the results, but the way they're presented.)
setori88 17y ago
My only relationship to duck duck go is as a user. nothing else. second question -> I know full well my words could have absolutely no effect in persuading you, as search is such a personal and habitual experience. So instead I resort to simply saying; use it for a week and let the site speak for itself. Pardon my deliberate canny dodge. anyway after a bit of a rant here is what i consider the most powerful feature of ddg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209619 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209619
- pbhjpbhj 17y ago
  I actually did use it for a week but I'm back at Google. There wasn't enough draw to pull me away - though I'll try it again in a few weeks when the owner has had time to respond fully to the reddit feedback. I think he's going to be a very wealthy man!
- blueben 17y ago
  That doesn't make any sense. I'm asking to be persuaded. Obviously I'm looking for your words. Asking me to invest a week of my search traffic just because? That's more likely to have absolutely no effect in persuading me.
  - setori88 17y ago
    Remember, I simply posted the duck duck go site and said this is my default search engine, why persuade you? Research yourself, can't be bothered well, so be it. Try it for a week don't like it ... so be it. Good luck mate The internet has too many trolls - not that you are a troll
RevRal 17y ago
>Is there not one good benefit of this search engine that you can put in to words? It has a duck. Just use it for a week.
- viraptor 17y ago
  That's not even an answer... For me it doesn't have any benefit (it hasn't got my google search profile), but I'm also interested in what benefit do you see in it. Even just because I'm curious...
  - sage_joch 17y ago
    DDG wins hands down with respect to privacy.
    - viraptor 17y ago
      TBH, I don't want/need DDG's privacy. I'm working with VoIP - what I want to get when I look for "yate" is the softswitch, not the city. When I look for "asterisk", I want the pbx, not the page about "*". I'm ok with google knowing that - it's search profile works great for me. I think we've got too many words with multiple meanings to accept the same results page for every person.
      - setori88 17y ago
        The word "asterisk" does indeed have different meanings that is why ddg uses this particular technique to disambiguate the query. Narrowing down the meaning is performed by the user's intelligence not machine intelligence. There on the first page one can see high level "asterisk" meanings including Asterisk PBX, one click away. Please note too that Asterisk the PBX is indeed top of the weblinks section. Compare the usability to google search. Notice that a person searching for the song "Asterisk" by M83 can find it immediately on ddg. A google user would have to try different keyword combinations to eventually get the topic in question - say "what was the band's name again?" and you are off on a wild goose chase. In all honesty I would rather click that disambiguate menu than have to retype a whole bunch of search terms. Secondly your "yate" query is in fact the first weblink result of ddg (http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki/ http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki/), the other top bits help the user disambiguate the search as there are other meanings to the name Yate. A possible reason Yate the softswitch does not show up on the disambiguate menu, could be the same reason why Yate softswitch does not show up on a disambiguate menu in Wikipedia. If you create a well written wikipedia entry, I believe your softswitch would appear shortly in ddg disambiguate menu. It seems the only like to the Yate softswitch from wikipedia is this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol) As an experiment, try find those little Yate towns with the keyword "Yate" and the song Asterisk by the band M83 with the keyword "asterisk" in google. How about one more thing: search for Asterisk in ddg, click on the disambiguate link for asterisk and notice that the results filter out non Asterisk PBX results. Quite handy if you are an Asterisk PBX professional.

Two questions: Are you an employee, investor, or other interested party? Is there not one good benefit of this search engine that you can put in to words?

by blueben 17y ago

Two questions: Are you an employee, investor, or other interested party? Is there not one good benefit of this search engine that you can put in to words?

dcurtis 17y ago

Just use it for a week, and you'll see. For many things, the results are better than Google. (And it's not just the results, but the way they're presented.)

setori88 17y ago

My only relationship to duck duck go is as a user. nothing else. second question -> I know full well my words could have absolutely no effect in persuading you, as search is such a personal and habitual experience. So instead I resort to simply saying; use it for a week and let the site speak for itself. Pardon my deliberate canny dodge. anyway after a bit of a rant here is what i consider the most powerful feature of ddg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209619 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209619

pbhjpbhj 17y ago
I actually did use it for a week but I'm back at Google. There wasn't enough draw to pull me away - though I'll try it again in a few weeks when the owner has had time to respond fully to the reddit feedback. I think he's going to be a very wealthy man!
blueben 17y ago
That doesn't make any sense. I'm asking to be persuaded. Obviously I'm looking for your words. Asking me to invest a week of my search traffic just because? That's more likely to have absolutely no effect in persuading me.
- setori88 17y ago
  Remember, I simply posted the duck duck go site and said this is my default search engine, why persuade you? Research yourself, can't be bothered well, so be it. Try it for a week don't like it ... so be it. Good luck mate The internet has too many trolls - not that you are a troll

RevRal 17y ago

>Is there not one good benefit of this search engine that you can put in to words? It has a duck. Just use it for a week.

viraptor 17y ago
That's not even an answer... For me it doesn't have any benefit (it hasn't got my google search profile), but I'm also interested in what benefit do you see in it. Even just because I'm curious...
- sage_joch 17y ago
  DDG wins hands down with respect to privacy.
  - viraptor 17y ago
    TBH, I don't want/need DDG's privacy. I'm working with VoIP - what I want to get when I look for "yate" is the softswitch, not the city. When I look for "asterisk", I want the pbx, not the page about "*". I'm ok with google knowing that - it's search profile works great for me. I think we've got too many words with multiple meanings to accept the same results page for every person.
    - setori88 17y ago
      The word "asterisk" does indeed have different meanings that is why ddg uses this particular technique to disambiguate the query. Narrowing down the meaning is performed by the user's intelligence not machine intelligence. There on the first page one can see high level "asterisk" meanings including Asterisk PBX, one click away. Please note too that Asterisk the PBX is indeed top of the weblinks section. Compare the usability to google search. Notice that a person searching for the song "Asterisk" by M83 can find it immediately on ddg. A google user would have to try different keyword combinations to eventually get the topic in question - say "what was the band's name again?" and you are off on a wild goose chase. In all honesty I would rather click that disambiguate menu than have to retype a whole bunch of search terms. Secondly your "yate" query is in fact the first weblink result of ddg (http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki/ http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki/), the other top bits help the user disambiguate the search as there are other meanings to the name Yate. A possible reason Yate the softswitch does not show up on the disambiguate menu, could be the same reason why Yate softswitch does not show up on a disambiguate menu in Wikipedia. If you create a well written wikipedia entry, I believe your softswitch would appear shortly in ddg disambiguate menu. It seems the only like to the Yate softswitch from wikipedia is this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol) As an experiment, try find those little Yate towns with the keyword "Yate" and the song Asterisk by the band M83 with the keyword "asterisk" in google. How about one more thing: search for Asterisk in ddg, click on the disambiguate link for asterisk and notice that the results filter out non Asterisk PBX results. Quite handy if you are an Asterisk PBX professional.