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The only rational reason to use DDG over Google is that for some reason you are on the extreme end of the paranoia towards Google or any other search engine. Th
by pavs 16y ago
The only rational reason to use DDG over Google is that for some reason you are on the extreme end of the paranoia towards Google or any other search engine. That itself is not much of a good argument as there are number of things you can do to make sure that Google doesn't track your search results.
From my point of view there are no compelling reason to use DDG over Bing or Google, the only reason DDG is a HN darling because we like to root for the small guy; lets see it for what it is.
Personally I would love to see a search engine that really gives Google and Bing a run for the money and disrupts the search engine market. Unfortunately DDG doesn't do that.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoI'd love to know what you think might disrupt as I'm always looking for good ideas, but know that is what I'm trying to do. Our about page tries to explain why you should use it: http://duckduckgo.com/about.html http://duckduckgo.com/about.html The most visible things to me are the 0-click info and the less spam. Then there are lots of little things that start to add up, many listed on the goodies page: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
- pavs 16y agoI have some ideas... I put a note on my task list to make sure that I email you (from the feedback page) on some of the things I believe might put you apart from others and also better promote your existing features (some of which I just saw for the first time). I need some time to sit down and give it a go for few hours and put down my fragmented ideas in a proper way. Hopefully tomorrow.
- adrianwaj 16y agoI came across these new search mashups today: http://kickdash.com http://kickdash.com (instant, with autosuggest, in categories, but no general search) http://www.liquidjelly.co.uk/supersearch/ http://www.liquidjelly.co.uk/supersearch/ (client side merging of bing+boss+google into 1 page) http://instantlyweb.com/ http://instantlyweb.com/ (i'm feeling lucky frame + instant)
- joshuacc 16y agoOne thing that might be helpful is to have a video showing off some of the "cool" features. I would think that this would at least get more non-techies to try it out.
- stevejohnson 16y agoThe only rational reason to use DDG over Google is that for some reason you are on the extreme end of the paranoia towards Google or any other search engine. That's a pretty bold statement. I have gained concrete benefit from switching to DDG full-time, mostly from the 0-click info but also from generally improved search results. But no, I guess you're the "rational" one, and my experience is not valid.
- pavs 16y agoWhen did I say your experience is not valid? If you feel 0-click is must have feature and DDG search is better than Google search good for you. The text you quoted was my opinion, was it not obvious enough?
- gloob 16y agoStatements that begin with the phrase "The only rational reason to..." usually are not intended as expressions of opinion, but rather as statements about how there is only one rational rational reason to do such-and-such, and this is it.
- jackolas 16y agoI tend to only need to use google when i know what I'm looking for but forgot something about it or its something I want answered. Error codes seem rather hard to search for on DDG.
- smutticus 16y agoI use DDG for the simple reason that it gives me results in English all the time. I travel A LOT and Google is always trying to guess what language they should serve me my results in. If I'm sitting at a customer's site in Germany I'm not interested in German results. I also might not be able to login to Google on this computer so it gets my preferences. It might sound like a silly reason but it's a big deal for me.