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In related news, DuckDuckGo has gone up ~10m DAU in the last month (~12.5%) and has gone up ~30m average DAU since January (~60%). [0] [0] https://ddg.gg/traff

• BlueTemplar 6y ago
  DDG doesn't have its own search engine though.
  • dredmorbius 6y ago
    Quibble: it has crawlers, though for small and specialised search, mostly Instant Answers IIUC. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du... Its primary SERPs are baased on Bing and Yandex. (I'm a heavy long-term DDG user myself.)
• ant6n 6y ago
  Whenever Google only give me garbage results, duck duck go does as well. Apparently You cannot discover information on websites with a search engine these days, unless it’s news Or Wikipedia entries.
  • unishark 6y ago
    > Apparently You cannot discover information on websites with a search engine these days, unless it’s news Or Wikipedia entries. Certainly not if it's any search term that can be "monetized" with an automated scraping script. Web search seems like an extremely adversarial problem with people constantly hacking your search algorithm instantly as you change it. One would hope that the benefit a giant firm can provide is the amount of R&D they could afford to devote to countering this. But perhaps when they're paying for ads they don't seem so adversarial to google.