DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing

Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing by 0x38B on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:30PM (#21315596)

I'll second this. DDG has been my default for 2+ years.

Google is better for obscure topics that lack good keywords to find them by. I usually know when I need to '!g'.

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Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing by klingonopera on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:20PM (#21316134)

What's great about this is that we're still telling DDG what searches we need to do on Google, so they have plenty of diagnostic data available to better their searches (as opposed to skipping DDG entirely).

I do have one nitpick though: I clear all private data, and recently I was forced to get along with 16 kbit bandwidth (yes, slower than 56K, and yes, I spent a lot of time on HN for obvious reasons), and DDG definitely loads more data than Google for a query. Google needed maybe 20 seconds to load a page, DDG IIRC just timed out after some point. I'm guessing it's JS-frameworks?

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Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing by frosted-flakes on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:06PM (#21318985)

DDG does have a lite HTML version of their site that is much faster.

https://duckduckgo.com/lite

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Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing by lonelappde on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:51PM (#21317855)

And ddg can improve its results by slurping in Google's #1 result for every !g query, like Bing got caught doing.

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