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1. 31.▲
   by yegg 10mo ago

   We do, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259412 -- that said, I take the point and will circle up with the team.
2. 32.▲
   by yegg 10mo ago

   I did not submit to this to Hacker News. I wrote it for my audience on my newsletter.
3. 33.▲
   by yegg 10mo ago

   We = DuckDuckGo. As the article notes, we are increasingly relying on our own search technology. For example, our Search Assist (our version of AI overviews), local results (maps, business listings, etc.), knowledge graph stuff (wikipedia,
4. 34.▲
   by yegg 10mo ago

   We actually have, as part of https://natlawreview.com/article/nad-examines-privacy-statem... "The NAD found the claims supported by the evidence which included a third-party expert confirming that the company’s me
5. 35.▲
   by yegg 10mo ago

   A primary problem is we get overwhelingly spammed with submissions. They are not completely ignored. We have maintainers, but as a relatively small team given the surface area of what we're working on, they have been de-prioritized. Th
6. 36.▲
   by yegg 11mo ago

   Aggregate anonymous statistics, for example, requery rates/times, bounce back rates/times, etc.
7. 37.▲
   by yegg 11mo ago

   We never blocked this image and we would have no incentive to either since we’ve been banned in China since 2014. Here’s my statement from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528324
8. 38.▲
   by yegg 11mo ago

   All our different search metrics have been up over time, so would love to know more about specifics if you'd care to reach out to me (email in profile) and we can look into it more deeply.
9. 39.▲
   by yegg 11mo ago

   We have actually started doing a lot more crawling and indexing in the last 24 months.
10. 40.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    FYI if you're curious, our full list of 2025 donations are here, $1.1M to 29 orgs: https://spreadprivacy.com/2025-duckduckgo-charitable-donatio... . Historical donations (going back to 2011) are here: https:/&#x2F
11. 41.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    There are hundreds of logo easter eggs. The community has been cataloging ones they can find: https://makdulac.com/daxduckdex.html
12. 42.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Thanks (author here). I am working on a follow-up post (and likely posts) with specific recommendations.
13. 43.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Yup. We still do (at DuckDuckGo), though now also alongside a bunch of other languages.
14. 44.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    This title is highly misleading, implying that Google tracks DuckDuckGo searches directly, which isn’t true. It also reinforces a conspiracy theory that we’re owned by Google, which also of course isn’t true. Kindly please change it to be m
15. 45.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    I'm seeing that as our first result.
16. 46.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    The settings don’t change, but they are stored in anonymous local storage, so if that is cleared they go away. If you use our browsers though this is managed through the browser.
17. 47.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    FWIW we (DuckDuckGo) have largely moved in another direction for news results, at least in the US so far.
18. 48.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Now, the first few times you interact with Assist, a dialogue automatically appears asking you how much you want it to show.
19. 49.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    There is noai, html, and lite (and even lighter variant of html).
20. 50.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Thanks! I really appreciate your comment.
21. 51.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    If you disable Assist from the inline dialogue, there is a message that comes up about it, but I agree we need to show that in more places, like in the settings screen.
22. 52.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    We also offer https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ which is just regular DuckDuckGo with AI features turned off.
23. 53.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    I think they meant our browser.
24. 54.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    For what it's worth, we produce our own summaries, and you can turn them off if you don't like them. We also offer noai.duckduckgo.com, which turns all of our AI features off automatically.
25. 55.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    If you're looking for justifications as to why, I posted the other day at https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/science-funding-was-already-wa... outlining eleven of them: longevity (living longer), defense (wars of the f
26. 56.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Thank you. That’s really helpful and I appreciate it. !g isn’t a great signal actually.
27. 57.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    We are not just a "reskinned rebranded Bing." I know we're talking about search here, but to be clear DuckDuckGo is way more than search at this point and that is a large part of why we are popular. For example, we have a bro
28. 58.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Do you have specific examples of this behavior that I can look into? Also, curious if you've tried our Assist function (comes up automatically for some searches or click Assist under search box) or duck.ai for stuff like that?
29. 59.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Thank you for providing an example we can look into. If you have other thoughts, please also feel free to share them with me, and I'll take them back to the team. My email is in my profile if that method is preferred. Despite what some
30. 60.▲
    by yegg 1y ago

    Any particular results/examples we can look into? Feel free to email me if preferred (see profile).