Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by lmm on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:27AM (#7276824)

> If they are doing it any more often than that, then they shouldn't need to google "flowers" each time....

Why not? Computers are better at memorizing things than people; it shouldn't be a human's job to remember a site URL (and browser bookmarks are less useful than intelligent search engines).

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @02:33PM (#7278904)

I imagine after a few times they would have a particular business or location in mind, and use google to search for that instead. For instance, if I googled "flowers" a few months ago and found "Joes Flower Shop in Seattle", if I wanted flowers again I would google "joes flowers seattle" instead of "flowers".

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by enneff on Friday February 21, 2014 @06:37PM (#7280196)

That's not how most people use computers. If they found the flower shop last time by typing "flowers", then they're going to type "flowers" the next time.

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