Global market shares as of Feb. 2021 [1]:
* Google 92%
* Bing 2.69%
* Baidu 1.33%
* DuckDuckGo 0.64%
Alphabet made $182 billion last year, with a profit of $34 billion, making it the fifth most profitable private business in the world [2]. Much of that is off the back of search and AdWords.
Summary: duckduckgo traffic seems to be increasing approximately exponentially for a while and as far as I can see the trend still continues.
This is extremely interesting, here are three thoughts:
- their are already profitable and have been for a long time already. This is probably very good money (operating costs probably scales slower than revenue)
- it means more search data for DuckDuckGo which will allow them to improve their engine
- it improves their position when they deal with partners (like Bing)
The whole point of DDG is that I do not want a hyper personalized search experience, which may lead to worse top results, but probably not stop me from finding what I want within the first page of results, which for me is a more than great trade off for protecting my privacy.
Even if it's barely usable, I'm tired of the constant tracking and ads. Anyways, Google is already so full of SEO spam that I usually have to type in "[search term] [relevant web site]", and even DDG can handle that.
One of my clients have integrated their intranet solution with Microsoft and if I search on Bing while logged in I get relevant results from both the Internet and the company network!
Two observations:
- I'd not accept if Google did this (like many others I was a fanboy, and like someone said: Google have worked hard tp make me dislike them - and they have now succeeded. Between years of insultingly mismatched ads, search quality dropping 10 years ago and staying lower than before and the whole witch hunt affair a few months ago I now do dislike them.)
- Google had this, or at least search on my machine and on internet working with Google Desktop Search already back in 2006! (Of course they killed GDS after I think they'd ruined the market for everyone else by pushing the best solution for free for a couple of years.)
You and others keep saying this, but you really need to mention which non-English languages you are talking about as at least some of them are pretty good.
I've been using ddg as a default engine and wasn't aware of this. (also !ddgde is a lot more to type than !g)
With google, I sometimes wish I had an easy switch like that when the terms are also available in English as currently this makes their results useless.
!ddgde is indeed a bit long, but as most of my searches are not local, I can live with it ;)
It's not "You and others keep saying this... provide some examples".
It's that you have a tiny scope of what you consider to be the world.
No, that’s something you put into my mouth.
This is why I was asking. Unlike others, I explained which language works great. "Doesn’t work" is useless without saying what it doesn’t work for. "Does/Doesn’t work for language X" is actually relevant information.
Edit: I suppose YouTube technically counts as a Google service, which I also use with high frequency.
That’s honestly the most important portion of trip. I don’t need to be navigated once I am driving on the highway.
FWIW - I wrote this plugin[1] to recreate my workflow[2].
[1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/tree/master/elodie/plugins...
[2] https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...