Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013

Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by matteotom on Friday January 10, 2014 @10:06PM (#7041322)

I switched to DDG a few months ago. At first I was a bit disappointed at the result quality, but I have come to like some of its other features. First is that it puts a little Wikipedia box on top of most search results, which solves ~50% of my queries. Next is the ! operators: if I don't find what I need, I can use !g to search google, or !gi for google images, or !w for wikipedia. It has tons of others: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Also, I just found a ton of other cool features: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Programming

such as qrcodes and regular expressions.

Also, it will give news stories if you put "news" in your search query.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by jonathanjaeger on Friday January 10, 2014 @10:14PM (#7041352)

The problem for mainstream is that that is work. Not only is it a ton of work (when adding extra queries over time), but it is a question of educating the masses. That's an even bigger hurdle.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by zanny on Saturday January 11, 2014 @10:07AM (#7042738)

I always found myself using site:xxxxxxxxxx on google in the same way bangs work on ddg.

That, and the convenient info boxes for most sites (it even supports arch packages and bulbapedia articles) solve 90% of my queries.

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Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013 by matteotom on Friday January 10, 2014 @11:23PM (#7041566)

I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but I like it.

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