Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013

Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by PhasmaFelis on Friday January 10, 2014 @07:43PM (#7040795)

One underappreciated advantage of DuckDuckGo is that it doesn't censor results as Google does, which is really useful for finding, e.g., torrent sites.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by aestra on Friday January 10, 2014 @09:34PM (#7041210)

Define doesn't censor results. They censor results by blocking content mills and related sites, for example.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/419965/the-search-engin...

The content he’s blocking includes everything from “Made-for-Adsense” sites that offer no content at all to sites that offer only, in Weinberg’s judgment, low-quality content designed specifically to rank highly in Google’s search index.

“Usually the stuff I’m blocking is pretty straightforward, i.e. not really on the line. The few that have been somewhat on the line are usually big sites, and I’ve asked users or they have been driven by user reports followed by my subsequent investigation,” says Weinberg.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by PhasmaFelis on Saturday January 11, 2014 @05:43PM (#7044091)

I know that I get much more useful results if I search for torrents on DDG than Google. I don't know what the exact mechanism is, but it works.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by mdwrigh2 on Friday January 10, 2014 @07:48PM (#7040822)

You mean it doesn't respect DMCA takedown notices? Because I bet it does.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by joosters on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:13PM (#7040936)

It probably receives fewer takedown notices than Google though...

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by magicalist on Friday January 10, 2014 @11:29PM (#7041586)

Google posts all their DCMA takedown notices (which must include the URLs to take down) on https://www.chillingeffects.org/, though, so you can access them anyway.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by venomsnake on Friday January 10, 2014 @07:55PM (#7040859)

Is DDG US Company?

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by higherpurpose on Friday January 10, 2014 @09:51PM (#7041272)

Yes. Startpage on the other hand is European, and so is Faroo.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by magicalist on Friday January 10, 2014 @11:28PM (#7041582)

startpage is just a google proxy to anonymize it, though, so it's not like they can add DCMAed results back in.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by fishy929 on Saturday January 11, 2014 @03:58PM (#7043727)

DuckDuckGo contains a "safesearch" option too, and it's enabled by default (see: https://duckduckgo.com/settings ).

I have to say, I was really taken aback when I found that, and it made me wonder if I was doing the right thing promoting yet another censorship engine. Needless to say, I haven't changed anyone's homepage/search to DDG since discovering that as it took a bit of the wind out of my sails.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by PhasmaFelis on Saturday January 11, 2014 @05:38PM (#7044066)

Optional, one-click censorship is not censorship, it's an option. It's not the default setting I would have chosen, but it doesn't make them The Man.

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