What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)

Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by ravenstine on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:54PM (#23339545)

If you regularly use !g, then why don't you just use Google? Serious question. It seems like if you are resorting to Google enough, there's almost no point for you to be using DDG.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by gxqoz on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:01PM (#23339640)

I'd say I need to use it for less than 5% of queries. And often those 5% aren't solved by Google either because they're just hard to search for stuff or my original query wasn't good enough.

I do regularly use other Google search services, though. In particular, Google Books.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by ravenstine on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:24PM (#23339952)

Google Books is still pretty decent, although I wish they still were scanning old books. I think they discontinued that.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by lostlogin on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:59PM (#23340319)

Regularly yes, but it’s a small portion of my searches. Google as a company is something I want to avoid.

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