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I love duckduckgo and I feel I can almost replace google completely with it. I only have the following comments on it. 1. They're hosted in the US. I wish the

I love duckduckgo and I feel I can almost replace google completely with it. I only have the following comments on it. 1. They're hosted in the US. I wish the company would pick up and move to a country not within the 14 eyes and out of jurisdiction of the cyber super powers(US, China, and Russia). Maybe panama? At least move it virtually with a warrant canary in place. 2. The search results need better contrasting colors for glancing through. Google is noticeable better with it's bolder fonts and better typeface/colors. I feel this would be easy place to innovate in over google. 3. Better site specific searches. Right now you can search a specific site for results. For example right now you can search specific sites using `site:ycombinator.com rust programming langugage` and you will only get results from hackernews. It works great right now and I use daily in my workflows but it would be great to do this from the search bar for firefox or some better way. Search engines have _alot_ of areas they can innovate in and I feel google with all its controversy(prism program, chinese state surveillance, etc) that many people would prefer to have their searches(and their life stories) in a company that values their users privacy to a fanatical extent.

snazz 8y ago
For your second concern, did you know that you can change the colors and fonts on DDG from its settings? Once you do, it provides a couple of methods to sync it to each of your devices.
- wpdev_63 8y ago
  The defaults should be the best contrast/readbility.
  - zapzupnz 8y ago
    Agreed. Making the user go to effort for the best usability isn't the way to get people to stay, not when what they're already using is perfectly clear and readable.
andimm 8y ago
about 3: I have set DDG as default search engine and I can just type "site:ycombinator.com rust programming langugage" in the address bar and get the results from ycombinator only. Also lots of sites have !bangs available, like "!hackernews rust programming langugage" will go the the HN search directly. https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang Maybe that helps.
- wpdev_63 8y ago
  That's great feature but I would prefer to see search within duckduckgo as it's usually better at finding what I want and for privacy reasons. There are so many ways these search engines can still innovate.
biztos 8y ago
> a country not within the 14 eyes I hadn't heard that term; in case anyone else hadn't, this page explains it pretty well: https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/ https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/
- cyphunk 8y ago
  Is the OP Swiss and wants it hosted where he/she lives? I'd be fine with that as an alternative to US, but do not understand why that would be better than, say, Sweden

snazz 8y ago

For your second concern, did you know that you can change the colors and fonts on DDG from its settings? Once you do, it provides a couple of methods to sync it to each of your devices.

wpdev_63 8y ago
The defaults should be the best contrast/readbility.
- zapzupnz 8y ago
  Agreed. Making the user go to effort for the best usability isn't the way to get people to stay, not when what they're already using is perfectly clear and readable.

andimm 8y ago

about 3: I have set DDG as default search engine and I can just type "site:ycombinator.com rust programming langugage" in the address bar and get the results from ycombinator only. Also lots of sites have !bangs available, like "!hackernews rust programming langugage" will go the the HN search directly. https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang Maybe that helps.

wpdev_63 8y ago
That's great feature but I would prefer to see search within duckduckgo as it's usually better at finding what I want and for privacy reasons. There are so many ways these search engines can still innovate.

biztos 8y ago

> a country not within the 14 eyes I hadn't heard that term; in case anyone else hadn't, this page explains it pretty well: https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/ https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/

cyphunk 8y ago
Is the OP Swiss and wants it hosted where he/she lives? I'd be fine with that as an alternative to US, but do not understand why that would be better than, say, Sweden