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by epi0Bauqu 11y ago
It is not significant, though we'd love it to be.
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by epi0Bauqu 11y ago
Yes! Check out http://duckduckhack.com/ -- it is our open source instant answer platform, which is becoming more and more of DuckDuckGo. The whole platform is open source itself (in addition to the answers).
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by epi0Bauqu 11y ago
Tons. There are so many constraints like getting access to data in a cost-sustainable manner. We try not to pay to data, for example, but some data is expensive. That's why we still don't have movie showtimes, for example.
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by epi0Bauqu 11y ago
Our long-term product vision is community-driven instant answers for most searches: DuckDuckHack - http://duckduckhack.com/ We think partnering with thousands of the best sites on the Web with great answers in all niche cat
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by epi0Bauqu 11y ago
Yup, that's very true but the numbers just don't add up well on search in terms of subscription or donation. We have tried to do much less advertising, making it up on affiliate revenue, but we can't do that much because of o
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by epi0Bauqu 11y ago
DuckDuckGo is actually profitable! It is a myth you need to track people to make money in Web search. Most of the money is still made without tracking people by showing you ads based on your keyword, i.e. type in car and get a car ad. These
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by epi0Bauqu 11y ago
Two good questions! There is a recent PEW study showing that 40% of people would prefer a no-tracking search experience. And yet a very small percentage of people have ever heard of DuckDuckGo. As a result, we think we have a lot of room to
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Thank HN: for helping me get traction with DuckDuckGo and Traction book – AMA
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Box: Berkeley’s first Billion-Dollar IPO?(medium.com)
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback -- we're discussing it right now :)
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
The plug part is http://duckduckhack.com/ -- that is, these are open source components that plug into the system via this glue. This one in particular is at https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/blob/maste... and https://gi
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Hi, Gabriel Weinberg here. Sorry to offend you, as was of course not my intention. I also of course don't think this is FUD at all. As far as I know, this is the first quantitative study of any kind about the filter bubble. I think it is ha
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Yes, what you said sounds plausible and is indeed intuitive, but we've found it empirically to be untrue. In fact, on fresh private mode browsing (cookies cleared) when people searched for the same result at the same time, we still saw sign
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Anonymize != de-personalize, and this doesn't do either, unfortunately -- though is a good start at protecting yourself.
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Sorry for not being clear (was also trying to not be verbose!). All it shows is that all those terms were searched a lot less than Romney for the past 90 days, and yet they all were found to alter subsequent search results after searching
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
I'm planning on blogging a bit on this particular topic tomorrow. If you have any questions, please let me know and I'll try to address them. I don't think the gTrends argument works though (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4741590
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
That's actually not true. Here's the past 90 days in the US for Obama (blue), Romney (red) and taxes (yellow): http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=obama,+romney,+taxes&... If you restrict to just US news searches (as many of the insert
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
DuckDuckGo - outside Philly or remote. iOS, Android, but lots of other stuff as well (both front and back-end). http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387-h...
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Hmm, we're (DDG) not a search engine? Come on. Actually we crawl the Web a lot and have a bunch of our own indexes. A more apt description would be a hybrid search engine. More details at http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Actually we (DDG) do have our own indexes (including web links). More details here: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - DuckDuckGo for Android app. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
DuckDuckGo: Android http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
We've invited companies to Open Angel Forum from all over, but I'm sure they'd open a chapter there if someone wanted to step up and organize it. I've visited a bunch of east coast cities, and they are in different stages for sure. Right no
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
I'm not interested in second-tier startups, and I disagree with your premise that those things equate to second-tier startups. It all depends when you get involved. And FWIW I'm no longer interested in board seats though I think they are co
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
You're very welcome. I need to update this now but I try to be even more specific (and provide links to advice) here: http://ye.gg/angel
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Sorry, you misunderstood. Not for me by myself but for the whole Series Seed syndicate. I only put in $25K but I generally helped put together ~300K for the company.
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2040924
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
I'm the OP. The traffic from that query is negligible for us. My proximate motivation was to answer the question posed and the specific questions at the bottom of the post. My root motivation is to better understand the implications of the
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
We are, but it's nice to let people in the community know what we're looking for. Check out the link.
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by epi0Bauqu 14y ago
Paoli, PA -- all types (remote, intern, on-site, etc.) DuckDuckGo ( https://duckduckgo.com ) Android specifically, but also anyone who really loves what we're doing and wants to make a difference in general Internet search. More at http://

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