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Great startup idea!
by flyingprogram 9y ago
Great startup idea!
- SkyMarshal 9y agoSomeone already did it! https://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/
- atupis 9y agoSome weird reason duckduckgo usually gives worse search results than google.
- iagooar 9y agoThe reason is Google probably has 100x the money, and 1000x the expertise. I love DuckDuckGo for their no-following and no-tracking you policy. I admire that and want to support them. But yet, I know that many, many of the queries are usually yield far better results on Google. I'm just hoping that with time and enough people using DuckDuckGo, it will get a lot better.
- SkyMarshal 9y agoPossibly more data too. AI + more data = more useful results.
- Insanity 9y agoI have been using DDG for a long time now and have never had that problem. Except with images. So I still use google for that.:-)
- abritinthebay 9y agoBecause they don’t track you so can’t make assumptions about what you want/mean. Trade offs.
- crowbahr 9y agoI like what Google gives me in return for consuming my data, personally.
- draugadrotten 9y agoPerhaps your children and grand-children will be less thankful. Your data will stay around.
- abritinthebay 9y agoSure. That’s totally a valid position. I think there’s a middle ground though - and Google is far far on one side of it.
- rawfan 9y agoI repeatedly tried "living in another search-engine" for a month at a time. I tried Bing, DDG and Yahoo. If I didn't search for something easy (like "population new york") the results were useless and superficial. Searching for something like "programatically create credit memo magento" yielded the user documentation on how to create a credit memo while Googles first result was the relevant API page with the second being forum posts explaining how to do what I wanted. If you need specific results and don't get them, you go back to Google.
- Qub3d 9y agoI use DDG, but honestly still go to google a lot. The secret is DDG allows "bangs" -- !g in front of a query is a google search. It turns the Chrome omnibox into an even more powerful tool.
- falcolas 9y agoOr behind, nice when you ddg search wasn't useful, just append a !g and hit return. DDG is my default, and I'm quite happy with it.