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Great to see support for all those important projects, but maybe DDG should use that money to hire someone who makes their Search Results better so we would not
by snackai 10y ago
Great to see support for all those important projects, but maybe DDG should use that money to hire someone who makes their Search Results better so we would not have to go back to Google on every other more sophisticated search.
- ake1 10y agoi too wish ddg had better search results but i think most of what makes google's results better is the tracking...
- ino 10y agoIn my experience, google results are better in incognito.
- icebraining 10y agoThe tracking of everyone else still affects the view in incognito.
- macintux 10y agoYeah, I'm sure two extra employees this year would have made all the difference. They're doing pretty well at an impossible problem. I'm cool with them giving back to the global community.
- rodionos 10y agoThey hired someone in September: http://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/e8635882/13/ http://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/e8635882/13/ At least their traffic acceleration suggests they were able to lift off from the 10 million plateau at around that time.
- MayeulC 10y agoFor what it's worth, I switched to DDG some time ago, and it took some time to get accustomed to, but I know find most of its results to be better than the ones of Google. Maybe except for one search or two that involve special chars, such as an error message. But I'm impressed, overall. Plus, it's not completely unlike Google with the resources it had a few years back.
- pax 10y agoWhat do you need to get accustomed to? Is there anything that you'd need to do different while using DDG than you'd do with Google?
- nilved 10y agoSorry, I call bullshit on this. I love DuckDuckGo and have used it as my default engine for over 5 years but the search results are consistently absolute garbage.
- problems 10y agoTry startpage.com, it gets Google results and claims to be more private.
- lettergram 10y agoI have to say, I use DDG regularly for search and switched about a month ago. Honestly, I have had little issue with it besides the occasional switch to Google when searching for super random very niche things. The real trick, is to just start using it and force yourself to. It's really not too bad, and there is always startpage, which you can use as backup. For reference, I use Firefox on mobile and desktop and when I type in a search I can select which search engine to use. By default I have DDG, and with one click I can get startpage or Google.
- bykovich 10y agoYes, I can't say that there's much I love more than forcing myself use a tool that's "not really too bad." DDG seems like they're really providing a stellar product.
- lettergram 10y agoTheir product is search that doesn't track you. The search portion is not too bad, as in it does it's job and I feel happy to use it (although not super excited). However, search is essentially a commodity. DuckDuckGo has provided additional value which is that you aren't tracked. That, in my opinion, is what makes this a good (stellar) product, that I want to use every day.
- snackai 10y agoThe use Bing ads and affiliate links to monetize. Nice, that "they" don't track me, but as soon as I click a link there I will be tracked. That argument is utter Bullshit. Only real plus point is, that even if they track it's not in Googles Data Silo.
- junk_disposal 10y agoWhat's the advantage of DDG over StartPage? They both rely on outside sources of data and both anonymize your searches.
- amelius 10y agoI suspect that if they went open source, they could get a lot of help from academia and others. Their search quality could skyrocket. Or they could start a contest, like the Netflix-prize.
- XJOKOLAT 10y agoshrugs bang bang, I'm happy. !g why would ever go back to vanilla google?