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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by dorfsmay on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:57AM (#18100714)
It's a win, but not a wash, because they cannot serve highly targeted ads, which means they probably can't charge as much and people are less likely to click on.

Try to create a separate google account, use browser profiles, and this particular account only for searches in a specialized field (say CS, IT etc...). Than start looking at the ads you're getting. Google can't do that if the request comes from ddg.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by unstuckdev on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:07AM (#18100772)
Lack of certain information is a valuable data point. Privacy-conscious searchers are served by many small but profitable niche industries.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by BCM43 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:07AM (#18100768)
It doesn't proxy the request to google, it issues a redirect to google and your browser does the request, with all its cookies.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by dorfsmay on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:35AM (#18100940)
So what's the point of using ddg instead of google if you do this?
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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by takeda on Saturday September 29, 2018 @12:11PM (#18101114)
It's just a quick way for the user to also try Google. I usually do search in DDG (default search) if I don't get good results I append !g to get results. Most often though Google doesn't give me much better results.
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