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How Often our Anti-spam Search Toolbar Blocks Sites
- breck 17y agoI don't know if I'll ever use duckduckgo, but I love the marketing approach: instead of advertising, create side projects or content that interest people. I find the blog content very interesting.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoIf you have anything you want us to write about, please let us know.
- dc2k08 17y agocould you write about the reason for naming it 'duck duck go'? I see there is a game called duck duck goose. Is there a connection?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoReally it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly influenced/derived from Duck Duck Goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g. a metaphor.
- noelchurchill 17y agoI've never heard of duckduckgo.com, but I have to say I like it! Its less cluttered, and I like the way it asks to clarify what I'm looking for before returning results.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoThanks! If you try it out, e.g. for a week, we'd love your feedback. Feel free to email me anytime (contact info in profile).
- noelchurchill 17y agoWhen I click "add to chrome" nothing happens.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoDid it get added in the background for you, i.e. if you go to options is it in the search engine drop down?
- noelchurchill 17y agoJust checked...nope.
- miracle 17y ago"Also, domains we don't cover (see [1]) are prevented from being sent to us at all." So why sent it back at all?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoNot sure I understand the question. They aren't sent back to us.
- cdr 17y agoI found the toolbar to be useless at best. I uninstalled it after a week. It blocked maybe one "junk" domain and false positived on three. And really, it's an even worse idea than NoScript - what harm is seeing ads on a parked domain going to do you every now and then?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoI'm sorry you didn't have a good experience with our toolbar. The false positive rate is actually very low, but there is a subset of sites (new launches) where we still have some problems. Basically there is a time lag in our crawling. Unfortunately, this effects the HN (startup) crowd more than others. A lot of people want to avoid parked domains and ads, hence the popularity of noscript. You do not appear to be one of these people :). So it probably wasn't for you in the first place.
- ajju 17y agoI'm impressed with DDG. An ego search finds all the results Google does minus much of the crap. How big is your team?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoThanks! 2.