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its crazy that through marketing and all the push DuckDuckGo is getting that they only get searched 250,000 times a day. With the hundreads of millions of sear
by alohahacker 15y ago
its crazy that through marketing and all the push DuckDuckGo is getting that they only get searched 250,000 times a day.
With the hundreads of millions of searches that go on everyday you would think they could pull a little bit more.
I guess it truly is hard for people to change who they search with after all is said and done.
- jonathansizz 15y agoI don't think it's surprising. The only place I hear talk about DDG is on this website and a few blog posts. I tried it myself based on all the glowing comments here, but I didn't find it to be particularly impressive (not bad, but not great either). I also found myself using '!g' most of the time because the default results were inferior to those returned by google; in the end I just cut out the middleman. So I guess I just don't get all the hype about DDG on Hacker News (same goes for bitcoin and the never-ending stream of Python non-stories). Maybe there's a cult-ish aspect to it?
- alohahacker 15y agoyeah same here. don't get me wrong i think its pretty neat and even have the duck app on my droid. i guess its hard for me to switch since EVERYTHING i do is with g ( email, search, google+, etc.) its more a convienience thing for me. but yeah i think it def is a bigger following on tech sites in relation to the average person.