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I think they are aware of what you're suggesting they wrote: "Then again, knowing the humble size of our userbase, we should let neither our expectations nor o
by jeena 13y ago
I think they are aware of what you're suggesting they wrote:
"Then again, knowing the humble size of our userbase, we should let neither our expectations nor our imagination run wild on this front."
Still it is the first browser which chooses DDG as its default search engine that I am aware of. This is quite a thing for such a small company like DDG. Now others can follow (or not) when they see that it worked (or not) for Gnome. And even if on Linux more people are aware of the fact that they can change their search engine in the browser, still there is a fair amount who just use what is there. It is therefore browsers nowadays are developed, do sell the default search engine position.
I remember the days when IE had 98% of the market share.
- khill 13y agoI remember the days when Netscape Navigator had all the market share. Get off my lawn. :)
- zanny 13y agoBut then you consider that in the mid 90s, the raw number of devices regularly running Netscape Navigator was probably on par with todays usage statistics of Opera.
- mitchty 13y agoI'd bet its even less than that. I remember watching the comets fall on that stupid icon and waiting... and waiting... only the truest of nerds tolerated that nonsense.
- robin_reala 13y agoOut by half. Opera claim an active 300m users per month[1]; it doesn’t look like Netscape ever exceeded 130m (combination of [2] and [3]). [1] http://business.opera.com/press/faq http://business.opera.com/press/faq [2] http://www.allaboutmarketresearch.com/internet.htm http://www.allaboutmarketresearch.com/internet.htm [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netscape-navigator-usage-data.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netscape-navigator-us...
- ewzimm 13y agoTrisquel's abrowser also uses ddg as the default. Ddg contributes to the project
- nsmartt 13y agoMidori (the elementary OS browser) offers several default options for search, including DDG.