New sighting: "duck-duck" as a verb

[buckworks]

I just saw a forum comment where a guy said, "When I Duck-Ducked The Name... "

:-)

[rcjordan]

Worst name is search. Even Dogpile is better.

[Brad]

> Worst

I thought the same thing, but I remembered it.

>Duck-Ducked

I'm gonna steal borrow that!  Thanks.

[BoL]

I'd DD more but I find the responsiveness of their results a bit slow. 3-4 seconds just doesn't cut it compared to G.

[rcjordan]

So, if Y is worth $4.8B, what's DD worth?

[JasonD]

>what's DD worth?
$36.75

[Drastic]

I'll take 3.

[bill]

>what's DD worth?
$36.75

Low blow. They're worth a bit more than that 

I took myself off the GG teat a few years ago and have all my defaults set to DDG. There are some cases where I still want to see the GG SERPs, and then I just add !g to the query and I'm off to the races.

[rcjordan]

Really, using the $/eyeball Y sales price, I'd bet DDG is in the $millions.  Verizon should have picked them up, too.

[bill]

Unfortunately once they do catch the goose that lays golden eggs then all the geeks who currently use them will switch to another engine overnight, They have a very fickle audience.

[rcjordan]

in my feed just now

8 Search Tricks That Work on DuckDuckGo but Not on Google

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-search-tricks-work-duckduckgo-not-google/

[Mackin USA]

BOOKMARKED da TRICKS

LUV DD    Makes me all warm & fuzzy NOT to use G

[Brad]

>tricks

These are good. Thanks.

[littleman]

>another engine overnight

Are there any alternatives at this time?  Something that's more than a skin for Bing or G?

[bill]

Are there any alternatives at this time?  Something that's more than a skin for Bing or G?

• StartPage - was the default for the Tor browser for a bit. Better SERPs than DDG sometimes
• searX - Open source metasearch engine that you can run yourself, or use one of their instances. Very hackable

Metasearch seems to be where it's at these days.