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by AdamSC1 11y ago
We encourage you to try it again for sure! We've even added a feedback button on the SERP. Despite our small size we move pretty aggressively on improving the search. In fact in the past year we've added hundreds of new Instant An
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At the end of the day we look at it from the perspective of how we've come to be the startup that does things a little differently. Our headquarters is in a town of 5000 people in PA, we refuse to track our users even if it were more p
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I don't think it is a lie I think it is poor wording. He mentions it is aimed at dev teams to easily allocate resources. I think the packages are you pay for a certain amount of RAM (i.e. 1GB, 12 GB, 100 GB, etc) and you can divide tha
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If you Google 'search engine' it's number one.
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Results are powered from hundreds of sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources and aided and refined by our community. We recently added a feedback tool on our results page, so if you find a bad result feel fre
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by AdamSC1 11y ago
We recently commented about this on a Reddit thread too ( https://www.reddit.com/comments/3vtxib/duckduckgo_search_lik... ) We do have a short domain " http://ddg.gg" although it is worth noting
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Thanks XJOKOLAT, We recently released a new feedback tool in the bottom right of the search results page. For that 2-3% of time you feel the need to revert, please consider taking the time to let us know why our results didn't work out
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Hey Jay, This is something actively being worked on that we hope to have an update for in 2016. We also recently released a new "News Instant Answer" that pulls in fresh relevant content on popular news topics. Have you come acros
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Hi Bad_user Thanks for the detailed feedback - have you tried toggle on regional settings and language selection from the settings menu? These are a big help in regards to local results outside the US and especially in cases where the word
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The "!Bang" feature allows you to redirect your searches. For example: "!w Sam Altman' would instantly return you to the wikipedia page on Sam Altman. And, "!Amazon shoes" would instantly return you to the Amaz
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Hey Stinos, Thanks for the feedback - part of the changes you've noticed are simply due to the fact that we do read threads like this, and we do encourage users to send/share their feedback and examples of where we haven't hi
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Hi Temp, Can you share the region/language you're using and a few sample queries? Feel free to email me at adam@duckduckgo.com if you don't want to share them publicly. We're always looking to improve, and get an underst
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Thanks for your feedback pixard, glad to hear you've seen the improvements. While you're right a few hours does not a huge metric make, it's also awesome to hear that the changes were that noticeable. We've added a new f
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Hi dpcan, Thanks for the feedback! Did you know you can change themes from the settings menu? You can then save them as a non-personalized cookie, anonymously to the cloud via a unique passphrase, or via a URL. The bookmarklet tool in the s
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Hi forgetsusername, The results have come along way over the past year, and we've also added a feedback tool that lets you share with us when you feel an answer was lacking. If you are interested in trying us again sometime I know we&#
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Hey rogeryu, Thanks for the feedback! You'll notice we've recently added a new feedback tool in the bottom right of the results page. If you fill out a search and it doesn't match your results (or if we really nail it) feel f
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by AdamSC1 11y ago
Hi Trymas, Feel free to forward this case to me at adam@duckduckgo.com and I can log it internally. The region toggle has gotten pretty good but we understand there will be fringe cases that need to be looked into - and small cases like thi
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by AdamSC1 11y ago
Hi Trymas, Thanks for the feedback - I'd be interested in hearing what language you're searching in. We've taken huge strides this past year in international language, and this is something that will continue to improve, but
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by AdamSC1 11y ago
As some folks have mentioned we're constantly improving our results but one of the best things is when we have a specific results case. So if you have a result that didn't work for you - share the specific case in our feedback too
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This is constantly improving and if you have any relevancy issue examples you can always reach out (adam@duckduckgo.com). Also if we're your default you can always use !g to forward a search to encrypted.google.com if the results don&#
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Bingo. Good marketing teams usually spend more time deciding which campaigns/actions they shouldn't push out than anything else. It boils down to that old rule of thumb that 80% of results come from 20% of actions. When you get co
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DDG has two ways you could get local results: 1) Type in your city for example "news new york" "pizza toronto" 2) localization toggle - this sets country specific results It's a bit of change in search style but you
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Calling it a "vote-ring" is a bit of a logical leap, that would imply that its individuals purposefully upvoting one another's products. Yet with such a low amount of posts meeting this tests standards, and the fact that Prod