Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
by freediver on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:18AM
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I am actually doing an experiment of using DuckDuckGo as my exclusive search engine across all my devices for the last two weeks. The experience has been suboptimal and much of it is on the UX side followed by the lack of search engine features.
As a part of this experiment, I also used Bing for two weeks before this and after a few days I could not notice that much of a difference to Google (one thing that annoyed me was Youtube videos playing inline on Bing).
But DDG is simply painful to use as much as I want to like it. I can not imagine it meeting Apple's product standards or having an Apple logo on what is the current DDG product. I also can not think of any IP that DDG has that would be interesting for Apple to own.
As a part of this experiment, I also used Bing for two weeks before this and after a few days I could not notice that much of a difference to Google (one thing that annoyed me was Youtube videos playing inline on Bing).
But DDG is simply painful to use as much as I want to like it. I can not imagine it meeting Apple's product standards or having an Apple logo on what is the current DDG product. I also can not think of any IP that DDG has that would be interesting for Apple to own.