Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013
by josteink on Saturday January 11, 2014 @11:39AM
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1) While that may be a bummer to you, it's a feature to me. I hate having Google assume I want local content or value that higher than other content.
2) I don't go to a search-engine for news. There are better tools and sites for that.
3) Excuse me. I just suffered a parsing error.
4) And this is why I use it. Google search has become a bloated UX disaster and Google is a creepy company. Just plain search sounds great!
2) DDG doesn't have recent news Don't you love it when searching google with keywords vital to your business' placement in the results, a few News headlines show up, pushing you from 4 down to 8 or 9?
Me neither, if I want news, I'll go to the BBC, NY Times, etc.
3) DDG does not have the coverage to answer a narrow technical question valid use case, yes
4) What DDG does have is plain old search results Yes! Remember in the early days when Google was just that? I do. Google has become something else in the meantime, and organic search results are not at the top of their priority list (read: advertising is, they spam my gmail account pretty much daily with advice on how I can reactivate the adwords campaigns that I suspended, how, if I call now, a Google rep. will advise me [try to upsell me in everyway possible] on how to get the most out of my campaigns, and so on).
Google rules the search engine landscape (basically a monopoly); that's not a great situation as we (site owners, admins, etc.) are all completely beholden to a single corporation and are forced to play by their rules whether we agree with them or not.