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Spreading FUD about tracking search terms etc didn't seem to help DDG last time. I doubt this will have any effect either. DDG: If you want to grow, don't keep
by speckledjim 15y ago
Spreading FUD about tracking search terms etc didn't seem to help DDG last time. I doubt this will have any effect either.
DDG: If you want to grow, don't keep attacking the big search engines with FUD that only a miniscule % of people care about.
- mkr-hn 15y agoThe February DDG newsletter reported growth in January from 2.5m searches to 5m. I don't think DDG needs FUD to grow.
- speckledjim 15y agohttp://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html Searches per day in Feb average = 197,687 Searches per day in May average = 205,759 FUD certainly won't grow DDG out of the extreme niche it's in.
- mkr-hn 15y agoThat agrees with what I said. Unless you don't think that much growth in searches over such a short period is significant. It's even more significant when you look at where it was a year ago. 1.2 million in April 2010, 5.9 million in April 2011, 6.3 last month, and already 3.8 a little over halfway through this month. This is significant when you consider the lack of marketing and that DDG is run by one person.
- Hisoka 15y agoIt's not significant. In the world of search engines, you need to be the #1 or #2 player to earn major revenue. People aren't gonna wanna waste any time/energy advertising on your platform if you're getting just a handful of searches per month for say... mp3 players or cellphones. DDG is just betting on an acquisition, but it's just a wrapper around the Yahoo BOSS API.