Duck duck go!

http://www.duckduckgo.com

by setori88 • 16 years ago

65 51 16 years ago

duckduckgo.com

setori8810• 16 years ago

my default search engine

baddox2• 16 years ago

Same.

blueben4• 16 years ago

I am curious. What's the benefit?

viraptor4• 16 years ago

A bit surprising that this link was not here before... Unfortunately they still don't like my developer-specific queries.

setori8810• 16 years ago

I too was shocked, and am also quite shocked that this isn't shooting up with up votes. - Developer specific I would say this isn't developer specific at all - but it has very convenient !bang support for developers

timf• 16 years ago

It's been discussed quite a bit on HN: http://searchyc.com/duck+duck+go

Gabriel is an active user, see his comments and submissions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epi0Bauqu

viraptor4• 16 years ago

> It's been discussed quite a bit on HN

That's exactly why I was surprised the main site hasn't been submitted so far. I've seen a lot of articles about it.

epi0Bauqu5• 16 years ago

Thx. Any particular queries? I am dedicated to making a better search engine for programmers: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/hack-hack-go.htm...

python123• 16 years ago

There's no image search.

qnrq• 16 years ago

You can read about !image here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

jcsalterego• 16 years ago

But, not Hacker News, so I'm flagging.

RevRal3• 16 years ago

I use DDG along with googlesharing (http://www.googlesharing.net) for when I need to use google.

This submission might end up dead, but at least it'll introduce this great search engine to some new users.

setori8810• 16 years ago

well I did notice the privacy policy - duck duck go does not store ip addresses - you can also search via https if you wish.

mapleoin• 16 years ago

looks a lot like http://scroogle.org

rue• 16 years ago

Does the FF toolbar allow HTTPS searches now? And is the "useless page blocker" optional?

epi0Bauqu5• 16 years ago

No, but I'm going to do a whole new FF add-on.

You can get https search in Firefox by going to the https site and clicking 'Add to Firefox' at the bottom.

dym• 16 years ago

If you want a multisite search engine, check out http://startbox.org/ -- something I hacked together a while back and still use as the start page.

epi0Bauqu5• 16 years ago

Cool--any chance you'd add DDG?

pbhjpbhj4• 16 years ago

That is not what I'd call a multisite search engine. It's a multisite search box submitting a query line to a button-selected SE.

I was expecting something like "blindsearch", http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=alicious&type=web .

jpwagner• 16 years ago

Ok these 10 node branches are becoming a pain.

It sounds like this community has some fundamental issues with privacy at google et al and is willing to sacrifice some obvious perks to relieve that.

If google made it possible to do anonymous searches would google be the ideal solution? or is there something wrong with the paradigm such that alternative solutions give us a glimpse of something different and the ideal solution is really yet to be realized?

I've got to point out that your average old man user clicks on the ads and doesn't care about privacy (or doesn't know anyway.)

setori8810• 16 years ago

Privacy is one matter some people are deeply concerned about, especially when search terms can get you locked in prisons by governments - decent search results is another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209482

dublinclontarf• 16 years ago

https search. If google enable https then I would be happy with that, until then, duck duck go.

ntoshev2• 16 years ago

What an evil idea. Track Google searches from your corporate proxy and use some Google-trends-like analytics on these data. This would offer a glipse of your true corporate culture.

nailer• 16 years ago

I currently get a fairly good glance at that from all the racist edits logged by Wikipedia as coming from behind my offices NAT firewall.

axod• 16 years ago

How did the advertising on Reddit go? Was it good value for money? Did it result in a good amount of traffic? Or was the main value in feedback from redditors?

Any insight would be really valuable :)

epi0Bauqu5• 16 years ago

I thought it was very valuable, and I am currently writing it up in a blog post :). I was just waiting for the #s to settle. I'll post all of the exact numbers.

The short version is about 3c a click, low bounce rate, lots of feedback, users definitely sticked, and it probably helped me get on the front page of reddit the other day.

mixmax• 16 years ago

That's great - We'll really be looking forward to hearing more and seeing some numbers. Thanks in advance for being so open about it, so the rest of us can learn from you.

pbhjpbhj4• 16 years ago

I thought he meant the AMAA thread, didn't realise you'd been using pay ads too.

Pistos2• 16 years ago

I gave duck duck go a chance for a while. While it was acceptable for most searches, on some searches, it just couldn't compare to Google. For example, try these queries on both:

usb /dev/sda missing

javascript determine font size

setori8810• 16 years ago

Your point is moot, you still havn't seen the beauty of DDG.

Firstly for your two queries DDG's results where acceptable, Google's was slightly better - but using this example isn't enough to shadow ddg killer feature.

Lets try something else:

Search Target = star shaped guitar

limitation.

- you may only type/search once (click/scroll as many times as you want).

- you may only use one word; that being "star".

Good luck with google. (im on page 23 in google and still getting star trek stuff)

You might argue; I could just type "star shaped guitar" into google and it does work, but try find the song named "asterisk" when you have forgotten the band named M83 and I hope you see my point.

The icing on the cake comes when you click on the star shaped guitar item in DDG and notice how it filters out non star shaped guitar results.

you need to adjust the way you search, get used to surfing categories to narrow down search, dont rely on this google profile, which thinks for you.

Duck duck go!

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