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> What remains? Gmail and a bit of search, where DDG is encroaching. Global market shares as of Feb. 2021 [1]: * Google 92% * Bing 2.69% * Baidu 1.33% * Du

> What remains? Gmail and a bit of search, where DDG is encroaching. Global market shares as of Feb. 2021 [1]: * Google 92% * Bing 2.69% * Baidu 1.33% * DuckDuckGo 0.64% Alphabet made $182 billion last year, with a profit of $34 billion, making it the fifth most profitable private business in the world [2]. Much of that is off the back of search and AdWords. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

oezi 6y ago
My complaints were just for my personal exposure to Google.
cft 6y ago
Bing is actually much better than DDG (for recent near real time results) and now it's in many cases better than Google (less SEO spam, probably due to its size). It is also more politically neutral than Google in its results - I started out using Bing for anything politics related, but now switched for many technical and financial searches too.
- addicted 6y ago
  Bing will almost by definition be “better” than DDG because DDG explicitly does not collect as much personalized information about you. Bing searches should be more relevant than DDG searches. The whole point of DDG is that I do not want a hyper personalized search experience, which may lead to worse top results, but probably not stop me from finding what I want within the first page of results, which for me is a more than great trade off for protecting my privacy.
- ahepp 6y ago
  Personally, I've given up on results quality. It ranges from bad (Google) to worse (Bing) to barely usable (DDG). Even if it's barely usable, I'm tired of the constant tracking and ads. Anyways, Google is already so full of SEO spam that I usually have to type in "[search term] [relevant web site]", and even DDG can handle that.
skinkestek 6y ago
Your numbers might be correct, but here is another statistic that os extremely relevant and extremely promising: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic https://duckduckgo.com/traffic Summary: duckduckgo traffic seems to be increasing approximately exponentially for a while and as far as I can see the trend still continues. This is extremely interesting, here are three thoughts: - their are already profitable and have been for a long time already. This is probably very good money (operating costs probably scales slower than revenue) - it means more search data for DuckDuckGo which will allow them to improve their engine - it improves their position when they deal with partners (like Bing)

oezi 6y ago

My complaints were just for my personal exposure to Google.

cft 6y ago

Bing is actually much better than DDG (for recent near real time results) and now it's in many cases better than Google (less SEO spam, probably due to its size). It is also more politically neutral than Google in its results - I started out using Bing for anything politics related, but now switched for many technical and financial searches too.

addicted 6y ago
Bing will almost by definition be “better” than DDG because DDG explicitly does not collect as much personalized information about you. Bing searches should be more relevant than DDG searches. The whole point of DDG is that I do not want a hyper personalized search experience, which may lead to worse top results, but probably not stop me from finding what I want within the first page of results, which for me is a more than great trade off for protecting my privacy.
ahepp 6y ago
Personally, I've given up on results quality. It ranges from bad (Google) to worse (Bing) to barely usable (DDG). Even if it's barely usable, I'm tired of the constant tracking and ads. Anyways, Google is already so full of SEO spam that I usually have to type in "[search term] [relevant web site]", and even DDG can handle that.

skinkestek 6y ago

Your numbers might be correct, but here is another statistic that os extremely relevant and extremely promising: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic https://duckduckgo.com/traffic Summary: duckduckgo traffic seems to be increasing approximately exponentially for a while and as far as I can see the trend still continues. This is extremely interesting, here are three thoughts: - their are already profitable and have been for a long time already. This is probably very good money (operating costs probably scales slower than revenue) - it means more search data for DuckDuckGo which will allow them to improve their engine - it improves their position when they deal with partners (like Bing)