Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012

Re:Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 by stcredzero on Saturday March 03, 2012 @10:57PM (#3661908)

I'm curious how much DDG's traffic has grown as a direct result of Google's perceived gaffes in the last few months.

It's not Google gaffes, but unavailability that's been driving my DDG use. Whenever google.com fails to resolve in DNS for me, or Google's server fails to respond, I switch to DDG. Unfortunately, events like this have been happening frequently of late.

I'm on Comcast in Houston. Anyone else experiencing this?

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Re:Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 by JS_startup on Saturday March 03, 2012 @11:58PM (#3662031)

You're not the only one. I counted three occasions just in the last week when an attempted Google visit timed out, yet DDG and Bing worked fine. Not sure what's going on behind the scenes at Google.

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Re:Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 by wcchandler on Saturday March 03, 2012 @11:21PM (#3661955)

I wasn't sure if that was DNS resolution or simply Google "forwarding" that was slow. Either way it has been fairly annoying -- almost to the point that I'm loading cached pages and looking on that page for a direct link.

I don't think ISP is playing a role as I experience similar results at $HOME and $WORK which are on 2 completely different networks/backbones.

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Re:Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 by rahulcap on Sunday March 04, 2012 @04:10AM (#3662396)

Yeah, I've been having lots of issues with google search and gmail lately. I thought it was me since I did not see people complaining on twitter.

If this is happening to more people, why haven't people been talking about it?

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