Article on DuckDuckGo

[Brad]

Sort of an interesting piece on DuckDuckGo.


Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor http://zite.to/1eYbTu4

[gm66]

Just a shame that people are too busy struggling to survive so they didn't notice when the surviellance really started.

The ancient Romans and Egyptians had networks of domestic spies.

Nothiing really changes (i've had a few beers but nothing really changes).

We don't have any Snowden-related files against Ebay or their adpoted child PayPal (do we ?) but you can bet your bottom (currency) that the financial tracking is far more important to intelligence services than social tracking, although i did read/hear/watch somewhere that most intel agencies have cut their  budgets due to the new influx of data from social media etc ..

Kinda makes your job easier when everyone wants to TWAT about the latest Italian sandwich they made ;+}

Being globally connected would be a good thing, if we all had water and electricity and food to support us while we sat at the keyboard.

Sorry, went a bit off-topic, blinking beer !

[littleman]

It is really nice to see them get market share.  My fear is that they will be bought out and closed down the moment the hit any significant numbers.

Added: gclarke66, you are largely preaching to the converted here.

[Brad]

I was surprised they still programmed in perl I have not heard about perl in a long time.

[BoL]

I've tried switching to Bing and DDG a couple of times but have to keep switching back. I'm searching for programming related queries most of the day which is basically "stack overflow advanced search" via google

3M queries a day is a good number. Google is around 6 billion just now. I guess it'd be generous to call them a 'player' if DDG hit 60M queries/day.  Maybe if they could chip away at a niche or country share, they'd get the momentum going.