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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by hnriot on Friday January 10, 2014 @07:20PM (#7040665)
Don't you mean >1B searches were proxied to Bing, Google etc? Aside from being an anonymizing proxy, I don't see any real reason for DDG. Maybe i'm wrong, maybe the news meant you served > 1B searches from your own inverted index, but I didn't see anything that suggested that.
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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by cshimmin on Friday January 10, 2014 @07:41PM (#7040777)
Agreed, would be interesting to see how many of those searches ended in "!g"...
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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by bigphishy on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:29PM (#7041003)
Are you implying that there's no value to an anonymous search engine?
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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by nazgulnarsil on Friday January 10, 2014 @07:21PM (#7040669)
I use a lot more than !g or !b
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