DuckDuckGo Changes Homepage Logo, Links to StopWatching.Us Call Campaign

by sinak • 13 years ago

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cLeEOGPw• 13 years ago

So far of using it I checked same results from google from time to time. So far top results always seem to be almost the same.

anoncow• 13 years ago

That is because they source results from Bing and Yandex(and also their own index).

I wish them all the best. Prosper DDG!

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399

stephengillie• 13 years ago

I wish them well too, and talk about them to privacy-minded friends, but I dont use them personally because I almost always wind up going to Google anyway...

Edit: Its been some months, Ill give them another try.

Sundog• 13 years ago

There's something to be said for being in the right place at the right time, but they've done a great job of going above and beyond to embrace this moment. Great work.

lalos• 13 years ago

I wonder how they plan to monetize their service I've only found this regarding their financial model http://duck.co/topic/financing-model

pkfrank• 13 years ago

I believe they use the same model as Google, et. al. Sponsored listings for relevant searches.

edit: They also have an affiliate program when linking to eBay and Amazon (http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216405-a...)

antidaily• 13 years ago

Ok.

raam86• 13 years ago

What I am wondering is how can DDG show correct PPC results with out collecting user data. They must transfer searches to bing in order to display correct adverts.

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216405-a...

jasonlotito• 13 years ago

They collect data. They do not collect personal, identifiable data.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

kwestro• 13 years ago

I tried it, and the results aren't up to par with whatever I'm searching. They'll be forced to relinquish data like all the other companies when they get big enough.

Samuel_Michon• 13 years ago

If they’re not saving any user data, relinquishing all their user data to the NSA won’t be a problem.

superuser2• 13 years ago

Until the NSA requires them to save it.

throwaway10001• 13 years ago

Google knows what you searched for and what sites you visited on 06/20/2012. DDG, I doubt it. Guess which one is NSA #1 love?

uxwtf• 13 years ago

Tried this service out searching for the data they have on me. The first impression was: Why some of my old files appear on the top?

stevejohnson• 13 years ago

I've noticed that people seem to think DDG is the only good privacy-conscious search engine out there. Lately I've been using StartPage[1], which simply passes through anonymized Google search results. So you don't have the same quality degradation as using DDG, and therefore never need to degrade your privacy for better results with !g.

[1] https://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html

mauriziopd• 13 years ago

you don't need to degrade your privacy just do !sp to go to startpage

dhx• 13 years ago

The "world's most private search engine" pops up the following error message when searching:

"You may be using a privacy-oriented browser extension that conflicts with Startpage. Please disable this extension and try your search again. If this does not help, please contact us at (212) 447-1100 (USA) or autoquery @ ixquick.com."

Not a good look.

DuckDuckGo Changes Homepage Logo, Links to StopWatching.Us Call Campaign

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