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by yegg 13y ago
Spot on, but worth it!
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by yegg 13y ago
Right here!
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by yegg 13y ago
It has a long history, starting even before DuckDuckGo. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=watrcoolr Perhaps I should do a post on it on the DDG blog.
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by yegg 13y ago
Yes indeed!
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by yegg 13y ago
Do you have any sense how many nodes (or I guess how much bandwidth or even something else I'm not thinking of) it would take to make a material difference on the speed of the network?
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by yegg 13y ago
If we had settings where you could remove the branding, would that help? Note we have some already: https://duckduckgo.com/settings/
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by yegg 13y ago
People have a love/hate relationship with the name. It really resonates well with women in general and K-12. The most push-back on it being too "non-professional" comes from the UK by far. No immediate plans to change the name or branding,
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by yegg 13y ago
FWIW, we've had both for a long time (years). We just started a company blog and this was an early post. Thanks for using DDG!
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by yegg 14y ago
I'm not sure exactly why, but I think you both took this a way other than that I intended. I think it is an amazing accomplishment to get to 1M users, and generally makes a great business, which I've written about countless times, e.g. htt
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by yegg 14y ago
Yes, that is exactly the way I meant it. The post I referenced at the top on orders of magnitude ( http://ye.gg/magnitude ) phrases the same concept another way. You generally have to go through a lot of orders of magnitude to get to one mi
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by yegg 14y ago
I never intended to imply it is an emergency condition. 1M users is in fact an enormous accomplishment, and I had exactly your theoretical business in mind when writing it. Not the one with no business model, but the one making 1M year. I w
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'Year of Rock' is the patient guitar tutor for the Internet generation(theverge.com)
3 points by yegg 14y ago|0 comments
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by yegg 14y ago
The intention for the site design was that your minimum request is listed at the top, and then more stuff is in the other tools to consider section at the bottom.
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by yegg 14y ago
FastestFox is the biggest.
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by yegg 14y ago
We also do about 12M API requests per day: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
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Show HN: We made this to help people stop getting tracked (Data Privacy Day)(fixtracking.com)
49 points by yegg 14y ago|15 comments
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by yegg 14y ago
1) The best list is the list of chapters, which is currently at the bottom of http://tractionbook.com/ . It is a bit murky as a concept as some verticals clearly overlap, and there are thus other ways to delineate where one stops and one s
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by yegg 14y ago
Thanks. In all honestly, I delayed writing and then struggled with writing this post for knowing that this very exchange would take place. You can't have a post too long or it will have less readers (learned that over the years). On the oth
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Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013(yearofrock.com)
84 points by yegg 14y ago|27 comments
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by yegg 14y ago
We struggled with this actually, but the technical reality is that it currently means nothing to the point that it might as well do nothing technically. And that's the point of the site -- not to scare, but to say this setting that is now i
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by yegg 14y ago
http://alestic.com/ is the best thing I've come across (Ubuntu focused, but many general solutions as well). FWIW, we (at DuckDuckGo) ended up in much the same place: ditched EBS, avoid anything that relies on EBS, and multi-zone and mul
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Tell Congress: Don’t Let Our Right To Privacy Expire(vanishingrights.com)
36 points by yegg 14y ago|5 comments
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by yegg 14y ago
Nope.
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by yegg 14y ago
I started this group on HN (then news YC) over 5 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287 . This is our 44th meetup. For non-FB users, check out http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/hacker.html , though if you're on FB I'd appreciat
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Philly Area Meetup – Thursday 11/29, 6PM(facebook.com)
47 points by yegg 14y ago|6 comments
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by yegg 14y ago
I think this exchange is part of the reason no one talks about this stuff, which is unfortunate.
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by yegg 14y ago
Changing it now isn't a legal admission of anything. In any case, there would still be no useful legal remedy available to us. We don't make much money, so what would the damages be? The last thing a startup wants to do is take a big compan
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by yegg 14y ago
Hi, this is Gabriel Weinberg, the guy mentioned in the article. The main issue I have is with duck.com. A lot of people remember that we are a search engine "duck something" and so naturally try duck.com. As a result, there is a lot of conf
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by yegg 14y ago
If anyone is curious where this comes from, I wrote extensively about the usability issues with adding search engines to browsers here: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/usability-issues...