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- MichaelRazum 5y agoTo be honest brave.search does a better job in my opinion. Just wondering how they do that as a newcomer.
- tyingq 5y agoLooks like they acquired it: https://brave.com/brave-search/ https://brave.com/brave-search/
- MichaelRazum 5y agoThanks very intersting. Actually makes sense what they did. So far it is really a nice alternative, to bing and google.
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoBrave search has been my default since it debuted. It's fine for me 90% of the time. Google still completely rules image search, but for normal queries Brave does the job.
- lgrialn 5y agoI’ve been having better results with searx than ddg for the past month or two. Especially because ddg seemed to have forgotten what to do with quoted text.
- jsnell 5y agoOh my, has it been a year again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25779323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25779323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22114540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22114540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100243
- arthurz 5y agoDuckDuckGo should have its own browser. This way the no track is more sound.
- hoppyhoppy2 5y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848133/duckduckgo-browser-pc-mac-beta-privacy-default-settings https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848133/duckduckgo-brow...
- kjaftaedi 5y agoThey will have one soon, and they have a mobile browser already, which is my default.
- _vdpp 5y agoTheir mobile browser is actually very nice, I’ve used it almost exclusively for 2 years now.
- upsidesinclude 5y agoHaha, I thought that seemed like a good idea, then remembered I'm using it and have been for at least a year... It's a pretty seemless mobile browser CAVEATS: Downloaded files are renamed generically... to "asset.pdf" or similar Bookmark handling is terrible and this could kill it for many users
- f0xtrot 5y agoMy main grumble with the mobile browser is that it lacks view-source and about: tools.
- sam_goody 5y agoDoes chrome mobile or safari have a view-source button? if you do view-source:url does that not work on Duck browser?
- susam 5y agoDuckDuckGo has been my primary search tool for close to a decade now. I also like that ddg.gg redirects to duckduckgo.com. The domain ddg.gg is much easier to type on web browsers where I do not have DuckDuckGo configured as a search engine. I stumbled upon DuckDuckGo fortuitously after installing Vimperator in Firefox around 2009 or so. If I remember correctly, Vimperator had DuckDuckGo as one of the search engine options and that's how I came to know about it. I use Vimium with Firefox these days and it is really easy to choose either DuckDuckGo or Google for searching using the keyboard sequences od<space> or og<space>, respectively, if these are enabled as custom search engines in the Vimium options page.
- jspash 5y agoI believe it's their name (and domain) that is holding them back. Sure, Google is a silly word but it's now ubiquitous. But "Duck Duck Go" simply doesn't roll off the tongue. It will make adoption much harder. The shame of it all is that they do own duck.com. Why not rebrand at this point? So instead of answering questions by saying "why don't you just google it" people could suggest that you someone "duck it". Hmmm, maybe that has problems of it's own...
- JackFr 5y agoSeriously the name is awful. I really think it hurts adoption.
- Sami_Lehtinen 5y agoYou clearly don't remember the https://www.dogpile.com/ https://www.dogpile.com/
- bamboozled 5y agoWe remember it, we forgot it, terrible name
- eganist 5y agoDogpile was at least memorable. I had to remind myself how to spell Cuil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil Edit: also, dogpile is somehow still around.... which is worth something I suppose.
- VWWHFSfQ 5y agoBeen using DDG in Firefox for the past ~5 years or so. About 50% of my searches give me exactly what I'm looking for within the first few results. 20% require a little more digging, maybe adjusting my search terms. 30% are nearly total garbage and I just re-run it with !g. I'm not going to switch though because for the most part it's "good enough" and I want to see that hockey stick trend continue. I'm usually frustrated with the technical searches the most. If I do something simple like search for "django queryset model update" I will get nearly a full page of SEO spam that's literally just copies of the real django docs site before I even get to the actual docs page. This has gotten somewhat better recently, but it's still not nearly as good as Google. Maybe because Google knows what I click on when I search for these things so it just goes right to it. It's a tradeoff, I guess. Although I do often feel like I'm punishing myself with this.
- mirkules 5y agoI started using DDG around 2011. The progress they made is nothing short of incredible. I've completely switched to them around 2015 or so. I've used Google exactly twice last year. I'm curious what kind of queries yield you 30% garbage results?
- spookybones 5y agoI agree. I !g for about one search per month; otherwise, garbage results are far less than 30% for me.
- mdaniel 5y agoI'm not the person you asked, but my experience seems mostly tied to the lack of depth on the indexer they (use/inherit from bing). GitHub issues are #1 on that list, mailing lists and other esoteric backwaters of the Internet are another. I try very hard to always use the "Report Bad Results" in those circumstances
- efitz 5y agoWhen I search for super technical things I sometimes get less relevant results. Also when I remember Something I read years ago and try to find it (in other words it’s not widely linked anymore) I get better results from Google. Not overall I vastly prefer DDG.
- Kuinox 5y agoIt's averaged over 365 days. Selecting 10/1 day show a different story: DuckDuckGo progress as stagnated in 2021.
- throwaway64643 5y agoThat's how you lie with statistics.
- hu3 5y agoInteresting: https://i.imgur.com/Ahy0GtP.png https://i.imgur.com/Ahy0GtP.png Any speculation on the causes of the plateau?
- contravariant 5y agoCould be a plateau, or it could be a temporary peak somewhere around January last year.
- toto444 5y agoMy theory is that the growth in 2020 was boosted by the lockdowns and it is now back to where it would have been without COVID.
- eitland 5y agoGoogle has stepped up their fight against it. Not by improving their own quality but by throwing more roadblocks in front of Chrome users who want to use DDG.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSpecific examples? (NB: long-time DDG user myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879227)
- eitland 5y agoIt was discussed on HN 4 days ago although it seems to have been flagged off the front page or something after a very short time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813079
- howdydoo 5y agoIn 2021, DDG handled 35 billion searches. Google first reached that level in 2002 (if this source[1] is accurate). I have no conclusion, just thought it was an interesting stat to look up. [1]: https://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/ https://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/
- jeffbee 5y agoSounds about right. If your search engine traffic is measured on the numerator in the millions, but the denominator is not "per second", then your share of the search market is basically zero.
- eitland 5y agoMight be correct but it was rising exponentially until Google started using dirty tactics again and it is still rising extremely quick while Google isn't rising. DuckDuckGo has been profitable for years already so they only need patience.
- gundmc 5y ago> Might be correct but it was rising exponentially until Google started using dirty tactics again What "dirty tactics" are you referring to that negatively impacted DDG's growth?
- eitland 5y agoSee my reply to dredmorbius (in another subthread): https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29861689 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29861689 (I think there is some automation to prevent duplicate content so I link to it instead.)
- rlv-dan 5y agoHard to compare. The internet and its audience is so much different today.
- EMM_386 5y agoI've been hearing a tremendous number of ads on the radio for DuckDuckGo recently. It seems they have started a heavy advertising push.
- thekyle 5y agoI saw ads for DuckDuckGo at the airport the other day too
- missedthecue 5y agoI've seen billboards on random interstates across America. I wonder what the ROI on those are.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoAlso in France.
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y agoAdd Germany.
- dredmorbius 5y agoGiven the low yield of many Interstate billboard adverts ("Your message here" being amongst the more popular), I'd suspect minimal cost and some return.
- Nextgrid 5y agoDDG is making progress but it's still far away from being good especially for local, non-English results. I'm worried whether advertising at this stage is a good idea as it could make people try it, be disappointed and leave a bad impression.
- benrapscallion 5y agoI’ve seen billboards in Boston. Good for them.
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- trentnix 5y agoI’ve been using DDG for a few years and rarely find myself using Google anymore. I don’t feel like DDG has gotten much better, but Google results definitely seem like they’ve gotten worse. But I could be wrong. Either way, I’ve come to loathe Google. Now if only a viable YouTube alternative would emerge…
- prox 5y agoNo, results are definitely tanking.
- kqvamxurcagg 5y agoThat’s my sense also. Google results for me are becoming increasingly irrelevant, especially since they stopped honouring double quotes. DDG usually works for me.
- not2b 5y agoHaven't you noticed all the complaints in this discussion that DDG stopped honoring double quotes?
- carlivar 5y agoSomewhat related: Does anyone know how to report bad links/results in DDG? I had a search the other day for a MacOS issue and the top 3 results was a fake apple software site, super scammy. However I didn't see any buttons or links next to that result to report it specifically.
- xojoc 5y agoHere's the help page: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/spam/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sp... On Firefox on desktop I see the "feedback" menu in the lower right corner.
- csnover 5y agoOn mobile, there is a “Share Feedback” in the hamburger menu; on desktop, there is an almost invisible “Share Feedback” button in the bottom-right corner which disappears if your screen isn’t wide enough. (It seems to me like they don’t quite understand how responsive design is supposed to work, they have some breakpoints but the layout breaks when the window gets narrow, and they load a separate layout for mobile apparently based on UA.) Personally I haven’t had much success at all submitting feedback. I guess that it is hard when you have so much traffic, but whatever they are doing really doesn’t seem to be working right now. `!fedex` has been broken for months because FedEx changed their tracking URL. I submitted feedback using the specific form they created for situations like this, and it is still broken. When you get bad results and know which result should’ve been at the top, there is no way to say what page you expected to see but didn’t, unless you choose “Other” and write it in the box, but I suspect that all goes into a black hole too. Not quite sure what the solution is here since obviously they want their results to not be bad but it’s not so simple as hand-tweaking one query until it’s better.
- ddp26 5y agoNit: It can be misleading to show cumulative metrics. You have to mentally take the first derivative. And cumulative metrics never go down! (Guilty of this myself.) I'd prefer if the chart at the top were daily/monthly queries. Then you'd quickly see their huge growth, but relative stagnation in 2021.
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- a9dhalaan 5y agoI was mislead by the chart too, i had assumed it was a chart of daily queries (getting a daily average to smoothen it out makes sense to an extent, but a 365 day average when you have this many data points?), however one redeeming quality is they let you change the day average from 365 to say 5 days. Despite that, they still grew by 25% in 2021 (which is much less than their growth in 2020 of ~60%, but still not at the level of stagnation)
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThat isn't cumulative metrics; it's just heavily heavily smoothed.
- admn2 5y agoAnyone else surprised they don't change their name to Duck.com? (which they own and just use as a forwarder.)
- ty___ler 5y agoSomething happened the past few years where DDG image search feels like a functionally better product than google image search. I think it's a combination of a simpler frontend, and maybe a simpler "keyword-based" search algorithm (vs google which feels more ML-leaning). Note: I can't prove this claim at all – just a general feeling I have as someone who uses image search a lot.
- bamboozled 5y agoI always reach for it too for some reason
- idlemind 5y agoAlso you can mostly still click straight though to the image file itself, a feature which I believe Google removed at the request of site owners.
- gundmc 5y agoI think it was a lawsuit settlement from Getty Images.
- buscoquadnary 5y agoI've noticed whenever I use Google image search it seems like 90% of the results are Pinterest which I have 0 desire to visit whereas I hardly ever see Pinterest on ddg.
- gs17 5y agoAlthough DDG doesn't really compete in this niche yet, Google's reverse image search has gotten especially awful recently. Yandex does surprisingly well at it.
- dredmorbius 5y agoGoogle hasd to change image search due to a lawsuit by Getty Images preventing direct linking to the image itself. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after-google-removes-view-image-button-bowing-to-getty/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...
- wombatmobile 5y agoAre DDG searches fulfilled by Bing?
- Sami_Lehtinen 5y agoMostly yes, but also Yandex, Wikipedia, etc. But for reference the https://mojeek.com https://mojeek.com is actually an independent search engine, with own index and crawler.
- tyingq 5y agohttps://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ Sounds like Bing is the main source, but with significant amounts of other things sprinkled in.
- xojoc 5y agoDue to the HN interest in search engines, you may find useful the "Search Engines" entry on Curlie: https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_En... And the "Specialized Search Engines" one: https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Specialized https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_En...
- hermitsings 5y agoUse DDG daily.
- vulcan01 5y agoThe graph is averaged over 365 days by default. If you change it to 14 or 28 days you can see that their growth has stagnated since early 2021.
- tomxor 5y agoI still don't get what I want out of DDG, but every time google hits me with their fucking "train my ML with this select the americanism please" for no good reason BS I go straight to DDG.
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- mikaeluman 5y agoBeen using DuckDuckGo for about 2 years. Amazed at their progress. Still local searches in Swedish are subpar sometimes. But I like the fact that they don't seem to be mangling results and manipulating them based on politics. Google search is pretty useless as it stands now. If I want to find controversial material - for whatever reason, let's say even debunking it - there's a chance google hides it. The recent scandal with Robert Malone and the search term "mass formation psychosis" is really bizarre. Thank you DDG.
- bitshiftfaced 5y ago> If I want to find controversial material - for whatever reason, let's say even debunking it - there's a chance google hides it. I find myself searching for information sometimes and then realize "oh, Google might see this as political in some way." That's my primary reason to use DuckDuckGo.
- not2b 5y agoIt is more that any search engine that uses your history to skew future results can send you down a rabbit hole for anything related to some conspiracy theory. It wants to send you results that you like, which means it will promote confirmation bias. People using Google to "do your own research" will find all the things that agree with their preconceptions. This isn't because the algorithm has a political slant, it is a consequence of how it works. Sometimes this thing helps the user: if my search includes the word "unionized", did my previous searches indicate an interest in chemistry or labor activism?
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- seoulbran 5y agoI just heard his Rogan podcast, ran the same query, got nothing. I knew something was up... time to start using an alternative.
- gnuj3 5y agoI'd love to use DDG daily for all my searches but as soon as I'm trying to search for local places (food, clothing, tool shops, whatever that is really) or specific things I want to buy, I get bad results (I'm in the UK) and I have to switch to Google to get what I need. My wife was complaining as well that she wasnt able to find a lot of good hits when doing research for University. I dont know what it's like in other countries but I hope this will improve over the next few years so I can fully switch.
- Nextgrid 5y agoI use Apple Maps for local places. Works well enough in London.
- gnuj3 5y agoI use Apple Maps too, daily in fact, but only if I know a specific place I'm looking for and I want to get there. What I meant in previous comment was say "milwaukee tools Inverness" to see what shops are stocking them locally so I could possibly go pick them up rather than ordering online. These sort of searches are still behind Google sadly. If I search for "Screwfix Edinburgh" that's totally fine.
- hubraumhugo 5y agoBig momentum and opportunity for DDG now since we've seen many discussions around the decreasing quality of Google in the past week. Back in 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page published a research paper that perfectly summarizes the conflict of interest between advertisers and search engines: https://twitter.com/krebs_adrian/status/1479457355620302848?s=20 https://twitter.com/krebs_adrian/status/1479457355620302848?...
- erickhill 5y agoInteresting graph. In my company's anecdotal experience DDG referrals have been historically flat. They went up a little bit around 1 year ago, then settled back down to their consistent (and relatively small) production. They rank 12th in our list of referrals, or 0.24% of total. Bing is 2%. Google is 47%. (Good ol' Yahoo is 2x DDG)
- yosito 5y agoI applied for software engineer job at DDG a couple of years ago. They gave me this page, with the data stopping at 2018, and asked me to create an updated version of the chart showing the projected growth of DDG based on "data" of how I would expect a browser extension to impact their growth. I basically created a PDF of what this page looks like now, but with "projected" data instead of actual, because I didn't have any access to actual data. Strangest takehome project I ever had for a software engineering position. It was paid though, which is nice.
- Freskis 5y agoIsn't DuckDuckGo just a wrapper around Bing search results? I see lots of complaints about DDG search results but those complaints should be directed to Bing, not DDG. (I understand that DDG does some value-add to the results returned by the Bing API).
- dmix 5y agoNo reason not to use DDG as your default search engine and if you can’t find it (or learned not to expect it) then there is always !g to search Google, which I do about 50% of the time. But anything moving me away from the internet octopus the better, even if it’s only 50%.
- quambene 5y agoGoogle's extremely annoying Cookie selection is a UX nightmare: scrolling past two pages before you can press a button. I'd rather go to the library than use Google Search ever again. (An occasional !g bang in DDG is allowed though.)
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- lettergram 5y agoIs growth when they only have a minor amount of censorship if any.
- dantondwa 5y agoOnce in a while I try to switch to Duckduckgo. I first use it, then I start to rely more and more on !g, as I know the results will be irrelevant, until I just have the automatism of adding !g for every search. At that point, when I become aware of it, I just switch back to Google, unfortunately. In the end, Bing is really, really bad and Duckduckgo is just repackaged Bing.
- Panino 5y agoBeen using DDG for years and as time goes on I use !g less and less. I use it so rarely now that I'll probably forget it exists as an option. Love using !w, very convenient.
- beermonster 5y agoAnecdotally I’ve noticed the DDG search result relevance/quality improve a lot in that time too. Well done DDG - I rarely use Google search these days. I’ve found the search operators work more reliably too which is great for locating specific results you know you once saw somewhere and should’ve bookmarked.
- jeffbee 5y agoA remarkable job by the Great Satan in Redmond of laundering its substandard search engine through the not-really-arms-length privacy-washing marketing subsidiary, duckduckgo. The searches are provided by Bing and the frontend is hosted in Azure, Microsoft controls both sides of the transaction but people buy the privacy fairy tale, hook line and sinker. Really, a remarkable case study. Here's a fine example of why DDG's search results are worse than useless, if you needed another one. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=FEMA+concentration+camps&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=FEMA+concentration+camps&ia=web
- eitland 5y ago> Here's a fine example of why DDG's search results are worse than useless, if you needed another one. Well, we are comparing against Google, aren't we? The company that let scamware and scareware advertise or SEO their way to the top for years? How about we cut DDG a similar amount of slack? Also, have you reported the problematic results? (I complain about Google but I have reported a number of problems over the years.) > The searches are provided by Bing and the frontend is hosted in Azure, Microsoft controls both sides of the transaction but people buy the privacy fairy tale, It is still possible to improve privacy quite a bit over Bing. Also, remember we are comparing to Google here. For most people biggest alternative to using Bing or a frontend Bing is to use Google or a frontend to Google. Would it be better if they used that?
- websap 5y agoI use startpage for search now, which serves anonymized Google results. The search results are far better than customized Google results. It also somehow filters some of these search aggregators.
- clsec 5y agoI second that. I've been using Startpage almost exclusively for about 5 years now and love it. The only time I use DDG is for image search because that's the only thing where I find Startpage lacking. Since I left G+ around 2015 the _only_ Google domain I ever visit is YouTube (in a container).
- nzrf 5y agoI have been using duck go for what seems like 4 years now. I also just use the !g if the results are bad, but over the holidays I noticed more scar operations on there product searches. I’m not quite sure why, but when looking for gifts or just things I was interested in I was driven to knockoff sites or total scam pages with multiple urls leading to the same scam. I’ve since reported these, but I will say google still seems to be best at product search imo. This still will not drive me away from DDG, but wish they would do better screening. It is hard to recommend things like that to my less savvy friends and family. Has anyone else seen this?
- brimnes 5y agoHow does it compare to Brave Search which is supposedly using their own index and not reliant on Bing? [1] [1]: https://search.brave.com/ https://search.brave.com/
- numlock86 5y agoI like the premise, but the search results keep disappointing me every other month or so I try it for a couple of days again. Sometimes it's even worse than Bing.
- xqcgrek2 5y agoI've started hearing DDG ads on my local bloomberg radio station, it's going fully mainstream
- seaman1921 5y agoIf one ever wanted a taste of how niche the HN crowd is, just look at the comments here. Most of the top comments are people claiming they primarily use DDG, and rarely Google, which is hinting at DDG rapidly catching up in terms of market share and search quality, whereas in reality no one points out that the overall search traffic handled by DDG is basically what Google handled 18-20 years ago :) Just to put things into perspective, DDG handles 97M queries a day whereas Google receives ~4M queries a minute.
- ant6n 5y agoSo to make that comparable, ddg does 100M, Google 6000M per day. Almost 2% is quite impressive, especially considering the quality of ddg search results. Then again, Google search results aren't much better...
- benrapscallion 5y agoYes, but many products that eventually became blockbusters started by focusing on a niche, and for many, that niche was YC or a techie crowd.
- blondie9x 5y agoDDG is Bing. You all know that right? This is just another alternative Microsoft product like Ecosia and Yahoo.
- eitland 5y agoAnd so? Startpage is just Google. If you dislike being tracked by Google and Bing it is still better to use DDG or Startpage.
- blondie9x 5y agoWe should have more than two search engines.
- eitland 5y agoYep, and now we are in a better position than we have been in a long time since a number of engines are building their own indexes. In my opinion the most interesting in this regard (i.e. building its own index) is marginalia who shows that a meaningful addition to the search engine space can be run by a single person on single consumer PC running in a living room.
- ds 5y agoOne thing thats really strange is duckduckgo is getting a boost of traffic from antivax people. Go on twitter and most every post is antivaxers/conspiracy people encouraging users to try DDG vs google because DDG doesn't suppress some random posts. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22duckduckgo%22%20&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=%22duckduckgo%22%20&src=typed_q...
- wolverine876 5y agoI use DDG regularly and it's pretty well-known on HN, but does anyone know much about these 'private' engines? I can't seem to learn much about them (beyond what they promise on their websites) * Qwant: https://qwant.com https://qwant.com * Startpage: https://startpage.com https://startpage.com * Ecosia (is it intended to be private in the same way as the others?): https://www.ecosia.org https://www.ecosia.org
- eitland 5y agoStartpage is just a privacy frontend for Google. The quality was just as miserable as Google last I checked; seriously underestimating me and overestimating their miserable Artificial Intelligence. I don't know if it works privacy wise but I assume so. (Think I'm hyperbolic here? No, I'm not and I've saved screenshots of some of the spectacularly dumb things their AI does: https://erik.itland.no/more-fun-with-google-mixing-images-from-different-source https://erik.itland.no/more-fun-with-google-mixing-images-fr...) Edit: Try also kagi.com (if you can get access), Neeva, you.com, wiby (two different ones) and just for fun also https://search.marginalia.nu https://search.marginalia.nu The last one runs on a desktop machine in some living room in Sweden and held off a massively upvoted story here on HN. Not production quality but still a joy to use and have sometimes brought me better results than both Google and DDG.
- tryptophan 5y agoExponential growth is so fascinating, and also the fact that so many things follow this pattern. The DDG traffic almost perfectly matches an exponential growth curve. A curious aspect of how it is misunderstood is how it looks to those who don't consider how exponential growth presents - basically nothing for a long time as exponential growth stats slow, then suddenly after it crosses a threshold, "wow its growing so fast", despite the growth rate being the same between the two. We see things as binary much of the time. Exponential growth presents as "not there"/"not viable" for a long time, until it hits a threshold and is suddenly viable/there.
- cryptica 5y agoI've been using DuckDuckGo to look up taboo topics such as vaccine data and conspiracy theories. I want Google to think I'm a 100% compliant COVID vaxxer and 'science' believer.
- autocorr 5y agoJust changing my search habits helped a lot in in finding results quickly and managing the SEO spam for both DDG and Google. I'm using Julia for a project right now, and answers are almost always found in either the Julia Discourse forum or Stack Overflow. By just searching either of those directly (plus more carefully reading the official documentation) I have found what I'm looking for much more easily. The situation is more difficult with Python because the community aspect is more dispersed. But because my questions almost always have to do with using the standard library of external libraries, I've found devdocs.io to the be much simpler and more direct, especially because it runs offline. It covers >90% of cases for me with the docs for numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas, and base Python. Maybe SEO spam forcing us back to RTFM will actually be a force for good?
- h0nd 5y agoI can use DDG only for finding out the TLD for sites I forgot the actual address. To search the internet, I consider it rather useless.
- Crsc27 5y agoI was trying to get away from Google EVERYTHING,found DDG really stoked about it specially when it was my turn on the waiting list for the filtering of the emails. Then all of a sudden my emails weren't coming thru, an I noticed when I'd go to search a website the last site was still open or still sitting there ready for access. At first u thought it was me, but then i started seeing my history an open past sites.But what ended my DDG relationship was when I was asked if I wanted to stay with Chrome or open new tab with DDG? When I have Chrome an Google disabled. Looked into DDG like i have Google an they are NOT as PRIVATE as they say.So if privacy is what your after please do your homework and take a little deeper look at DDG.Maybe Tor,Bravo,Dark Onion. And just so you know out there it is possible to live your life "Google Free" they say you cant but you believe it you can.Good luck with what you choose to do.