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I don't see a compelling reason to use this over google/wikipedia/dictionary/etc. Is there a compelling reason? edit: Also this page http://duckduckgo.com/?q=

by axod 17y ago

I don't see a compelling reason to use this over google/wikipedia/dictionary/etc. Is there a compelling reason? edit: Also this page http://duckduckgo.com/?q=computer&v=d http://duckduckgo.com/?q=computer&v=d just seems like bad flow - "ERROR!". If I want to search for computer, I want to search for computer. If the results are not what I expect, I'll modify it. At least show the results in a standard layout every time.

alec 17y ago
Compare their results for "a* search" with Google's. One has a video about police searches in the first page of results, and the other is Duck It.
- axod 17y ago
  They both have the same first result :/ I don't see a vid for police searches either... Google loads quicker and gives consistent result layout.
  - dualogy 17y ago
    "Damn, those Google guys are fast!" ;)
epi0Bauqu 17y ago
I tried to lay this out as succinctly as I could in the post :) The primary reason and goal of Duck Duck Go is to get you the information you're searching for faster, and with less mental effort. This new view in particular does that by reducing the clicking back and forth between results. It pulls out good info from pages where it exists. Often you click to a page and then search for your terms within that page, only to find they don't exist or only exist in a cursory or unrelated fashion. By displaying paragraphs of readable text, you should get a much better idea whether that page has what you want. And I hope that in some cases you won't actually have to click. The take a peek feature (hover over magnifying glass) furthers this hope. Another way to look at part of it is we are saving you (at least partially) from the myriad of interfaces that exist on all the sites on the Internet. We pull out the good parts, via Duck It or Take a Peek, and standardize the formatting for you.
- misuba 17y ago
  But: "Duck Duck Go knows Computer can mean different things." Isn't this a bit braggy/evident/confusing? Why not just "Computer can mean different things"?
  - axod 17y ago
    And at least still show search results for 'computer' like the user asked for. Otherwise the page is completely useless.

by axod 17y ago

alec 17y ago

Compare their results for "a* search" with Google's. One has a video about police searches in the first page of results, and the other is Duck It.

axod 17y ago
They both have the same first result :/ I don't see a vid for police searches either... Google loads quicker and gives consistent result layout.
- dualogy 17y ago
  "Damn, those Google guys are fast!" ;)

epi0Bauqu 17y ago

I tried to lay this out as succinctly as I could in the post :) The primary reason and goal of Duck Duck Go is to get you the information you're searching for faster, and with less mental effort. This new view in particular does that by reducing the clicking back and forth between results. It pulls out good info from pages where it exists. Often you click to a page and then search for your terms within that page, only to find they don't exist or only exist in a cursory or unrelated fashion. By displaying paragraphs of readable text, you should get a much better idea whether that page has what you want. And I hope that in some cases you won't actually have to click. The take a peek feature (hover over magnifying glass) furthers this hope. Another way to look at part of it is we are saving you (at least partially) from the myriad of interfaces that exist on all the sites on the Internet. We pull out the good parts, via Duck It or Take a Peek, and standardize the formatting for you.

misuba 17y ago
But: "Duck Duck Go knows Computer can mean different things." Isn't this a bit braggy/evident/confusing? Why not just "Computer can mean different things"?
- axod 17y ago
  And at least still show search results for 'computer' like the user asked for. Otherwise the page is completely useless.