DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year

Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by scope on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:18AM (#10756976)

DDG results have improved tremendously, top stack overflow / github matches are shown partially which is really neat

I FULLY switched to DDG (& also away from Chrome) when I found out when I click save password on login forms my password is sent to Google Servers (I must have missed it on the TOC)

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by antome on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:32AM (#10757030)

DuckDuckGo really is good enough to use on a daily basis now. One big gripe I still have however, is that there seems to be no way to filter by time. I still have to go to google if I want to find a news article or topic which is recent, or within a certain period.

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by tagawa on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:18AM (#10757509)

This is a popular request and one we're working on. Admittedly we've been saying that for a while but it's getting close.

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by dingaling on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:11AM (#10757670)

A really good filter ( for me anyhow ) would be 'prior to this [ week | month ]', since often I want to search for things from the period before they were news

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by tagawa on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:35AM (#10757755)

Interesting idea - I hadn't thought of that. Duly noted.

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by grimman on Friday December 18, 2015 @08:27AM (#10758282)

It's interesting to me, seeing how many people are so deeply dissatisfied with the results. I switched a couple of years ago, and only had a very small (two-three week) period where I'd check back on the mighty GOOG, only to confirm that they didn't have any better results either.

Might it be due to the way I format my queries?

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by SignMeTheHELLUp on Friday December 18, 2015 @03:21AM (#10757357)

> when I click save password on login forms my password is sent to Google Servers

Does this happen even if a user is not logged in to a Google account?

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by yohui on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:32AM (#10757741)

And not just logged in. The user also has to have browser sync for passwords enabled.

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by scope on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:41AM (#10757776)

I've NEVER logged in using Chrome's top-right account thingy, I guess made the mistake of logging into my Gmail account and they had/have my permission.

edit: i only use[d] to use Chrome for development, I have an iPhone (all my browsing is done via Safari) so there's no need for me enable browser sync (at least i never explicitly enabled it).

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by witty_username on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:28AM (#10759253)

And not have encryption enabled.

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Re:DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year by magicalist on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:44AM (#10757591)

No.

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