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> Google Search is leaps and bounds ahead beyond anything else. Nothing is too big to fail. If there's no direct competitor, an indirect one or a group could t
by thih9 7y ago
> Google Search is leaps and bounds ahead beyond anything else.
Nothing is too big to fail. If there's no direct competitor, an indirect one or a group could take over too.
> Duckduckgo itself uses Bing Search as its backend.
This reads to me as if Bing was the only backend they use, which isn't the case. According to Wikipedia they use multiple backends:
"DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own Web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites, including Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the results.", source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Overview
- Kiro 7y agoTheir own Sources page make it sound like the actual search results are from Bing and Verizon while all the other sources (including their own crawler) are used for widgets like Instant Answers: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoWhenever I hear people complain about Google and that they'll switch to a competitor, I'm reminded of the "Delete Facebook" memes that happened, only to have FB reach a new user record every subsequent month. Don't be deluded by the HN bubble. I like DDG and am glad it exists, but it's usage in a year is probably what Google gets in a few minutes, and I'm willing to bet that ratio hasn't really improved significantly for years.
- justinpombrio 7y agoFor anyone actually curious about the numbers: Google traffic is about 4 million searches per minute, which comes to 6 billion searches per day. DDG traffic is about 50 million searches per day, so about 1%. It looks like DDG traffic has been doubling every 1.5-2 years or so for the past decade. I presume that Google's traffic is relatively constant at this point. https://duckduckgo.com/traffic https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
- jedberg 7y ago> I presume that Google's traffic is relatively constant at this point. Probably a poor assumption. The total number of internet users is still growing significantly.
- joegahona 7y agoI keep seeing HN users working themselves into a lather praising DDG, but I just went there and see almost identical obfuscation of ads (a tiny "Ad" in the same color as the link) and in the using of favicons for each of their organic results.