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DuckDuckGo vs Goliath - An interview wth Gabriel Weinberg [audio]
- twidlit 16y agoProbably the best interview about Gabriel Weinberg.
- boyter 16y agoGabriel, I just want to say you can't buy PR like this. The hacker news crowd loves you (deservedly so!) and you are doing an awesome job with DuckDuckGo. Keep up the good work!
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThx! I've never paid for PR (yet), although I'm theoretically not opposed to it. My strategy to date has just been to be as open as possible, e.g. answer all interview and other requests ASAP, etc. I've also met a lot of great people this way.
- boyter 16y agoWell its working! Developers love openness and developers seem to be the main focus of DDG at the moment from what I have seen. Very impressed with it, especially since I have always been interested in the search space myself as a hobby.
- klbarry 16y agoIs the transcript for this available anywhere? I much prefer text as a medium.
- jayro 16y agoWhile transcripts are something we'd love to have for the show, unfortunately we don't yet have the funds for that. Maybe some day ... ;)
- boyter 16y agoMaybe you could attach a wiki and have users add them in? With 500+ listeners im sure someone would consider doing this.
- jasonlotito 16y agoThis comes up every time there is a video or podcast. I keep thinking I should create a service to do that. Crowd sourcing transcripts/outlines. Must put some more thought into this and then build it.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoPlease do. You can use my traction videos to test it out :)
- jayro 16y agoYeah, we would love to take advantage of a service like that.
- jasonlotito 16y agoOkay. I'll build it. bbiab
- klbarry 16y agoThanks for your quick response anyway, I appreciate it
- thinkalone 16y agoInteresting interview, and thank you for taking the time to produce high quality audio. Production quality is frequently overlooked but it takes your podcast to a higher level and got me to listen for almost two hours to Gabriel's interview and subscribe for future episodes!
- jayro 16y agoThanks so much for the positive feedback. ;) Justin has done a lot of work to get the audio quality where it is, so it's nice to hear that his effort is paying off.
- jacquesm 16y agoDuck Duck Go is on my mind a lot these days :) Too much probably, but I think it actually embodies the future of search, for some fair sized percentage of the search market. Right now they're at 0.035% of the market according to my estimates, that's only two doublings away from eclipsing altavista on it's way down. DDG will be 'just what some people need', but not the general public, that's googles game. So to attack a giant like google you need to go the lilliputs way, many small search engines like DDG probably stand a better chance at nipping away at a giant like google than a single head-on competitor ever would. Search engines are profitable at ridiculously low levels of traffic (I ran a toy one for a year), if there are good enough tools to tie a bunch of them together and allow keyword sales. This will also mitigate the costs of combating click fraud. Another thing that could be done between such micro search engines is sharing spam lists.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoSince you've been thinking about it a lot :), what did you make of the whole social gaming/editing discussion?
- jacquesm 16y agoLink ?
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoSorry, no link. Open the podcast and skip to 1h7m. There is then another piece at 1h16m.
- jacquesm 16y ago> Open the podcast and skip to 1h7m. Sorry, not in a position to listen to podcasts atm but I will do that later today and will send you mail. (going live with a big change today and it's still breaking all over the place)
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- MikeCapone 16y agoI've switched to DDG as my default in Chrome again. My main problem is that I'm always afraid that I'm missing good results, so when it's an important search I have a tendency to also use Google. And then after a while I tend to switch back to Google to remove that anxiety. Not sure how to fix that :-/