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Could DuckDuckGo Be The Biggest Long-Term Threat To Google?

17 points by hornokplease 15y ago

sidcool 15y ago
If DuckDuckGo and Blekko could team up, then yes. Also, there's Yahoo-Bing relationship on. All these are potentially big threats to Google.
- gee_totes 15y ago
  Maybe Duck Duck Go will buy Bing. I hear it's for sale: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/bing-bang-boom-is-microsofts-search-engine-secretly-for-sale/12561?tag=mantle_skin;content http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/bing-bang-boom-is-micros...
AznHisoka 15y ago
Perfect presentation is relatively useless if the relevant results aren't returned. Google wins, hands down because they have built an enormous index. Those 3 examples are relatively easy queries, but in my experience I find more and much better results for 90% of my queries in Google.
rjsamson 15y ago
I haven't used DDG in a while, but every time I go back there I'm left feeling a little bit disappointed in the results. Maybe its just that I've been lulled into complacency by years spent on Google, but something about the DDG user experience just feels a little... off.
dlikhten 15y ago
Problem: I just moved away from DDG. I love it still but it's just not as accurate as google. Overall takes longer to find something. Every non-technical person I spoke to hates it because it's REALLY not accurate.
- epi0Bauqu 15y ago
  Appreciate the honesty, but we don't often hear this except for isolated cases. Would you mind sending me some examples so we can broadly improve?
  - jdhopeunique 15y ago
    It'd be nice if the "Official Site" result was bigger. When I search for "Sensei's Library" for example, the official page is the first result on google and has extra links within the page. On DDG, the official site is thinly sandwiched between the wikipedia entry on it and the rest of the results. This is more of a user interface issue to me than a relevant search results issue.
bigphishy 15y ago
DDG may not have superior results to google all of the time, but I frequently turn to DDG when google search fails me, which it often does, turning up spam sites and shitty yahoo answers. DDG is always superior when I am searching for things of questionable legality.

17 points by hornokplease 15y ago

If DuckDuckGo and Blekko could team up, then yes. Also, there's Yahoo-Bing relationship on. All these are potentially big threats to Google.

gee_totes 15y ago
Maybe Duck Duck Go will buy Bing. I hear it's for sale: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/bing-bang-boom-is-microsofts-search-engine-secretly-for-sale/12561?tag=mantle_skin;content http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/bing-bang-boom-is-micros...

AznHisoka 15y ago

Perfect presentation is relatively useless if the relevant results aren't returned. Google wins, hands down because they have built an enormous index. Those 3 examples are relatively easy queries, but in my experience I find more and much better results for 90% of my queries in Google.

rjsamson 15y ago

I haven't used DDG in a while, but every time I go back there I'm left feeling a little bit disappointed in the results. Maybe its just that I've been lulled into complacency by years spent on Google, but something about the DDG user experience just feels a little... off.

dlikhten 15y ago

Problem: I just moved away from DDG. I love it still but it's just not as accurate as google. Overall takes longer to find something. Every non-technical person I spoke to hates it because it's REALLY not accurate.

epi0Bauqu 15y ago
Appreciate the honesty, but we don't often hear this except for isolated cases. Would you mind sending me some examples so we can broadly improve?
- jdhopeunique 15y ago
  It'd be nice if the "Official Site" result was bigger. When I search for "Sensei's Library" for example, the official page is the first result on google and has extra links within the page. On DDG, the official site is thinly sandwiched between the wikipedia entry on it and the rest of the results. This is more of a user interface issue to me than a relevant search results issue.

bigphishy 15y ago

DDG may not have superior results to google all of the time, but I frequently turn to DDG when google search fails me, which it often does, turning up spam sites and shitty yahoo answers. DDG is always superior when I am searching for things of questionable legality.