U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by dhimes on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:21PM (#24842922)

I wonder if DuckDuckGo would be more successful if it was easier to find out how to advertise with them. Like, a link on the page that says "Advertise on Duck Duck Go." I've tried to advertise with them in the past a few times and gave up. I posted here before also, as I think Gabriel used to read the pages.

I use them for search as my default, and I would have used them for ads. I still might if they put a link there.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by cpeterso on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:08PM (#24843228)

From what I've heard, DuckDuckGo sources its ads from Bing. I searched for "camera" on DuckDuckGo and the ad links have URLs that redirect to Bing, e.g. "https://duckduckgo.com/y.js?ad_provider=bingv7aa&u3=https://......".

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by cvwright on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:35PM (#24843390)

Agreed, it took me far too long to find an answer to this.

Apparently you have to sign up for some Microsoft ad platform, and then select DDG as one of the places to show your ads.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by ColinHayhurst on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:44PM (#24849531)

Actually I don't believe you can place on DDG. You can only select "Bing, AOL, and Yahoo search syndication search partners"

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by dhimes on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:09AM (#24846974)

Wow. So you're really advertising through Microsoft.

Hopefully someday DDG will have its own index.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by srtjstjsj on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:37PM (#24851242)

There's a reason MS and Google have an index and DDG doesn't. It's expensive.

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