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If 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, an
by seaman1921 5y ago
If 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.