New Search Engine - EdiSerps
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This is a new low for LukeP. He's impressed with a search "engine" made by a WaFo marketer. LukeP is the biggest sucker on WF.
I also love how LukeP doesn't actually show us any search queries that prove this new "engine" is better than just Google.
I also love how LukeP doesn't actually show us any search queries that prove this new "engine" is better than just Google.
DukeDukeGo is indeed an amazing search engine and blows that piece of shit LukeP is shilling right out of the water.
The name and brand is also much more catchy. It's nice to see that DuckDuckGo is doing good traffic wise and already has a really nice niche audience that uses it.
@r3p1v: I have no time to post a real SERP comparison, but surely you can tell the difference comparing a few terms, can't you? It seems at least 20% more accurate to me, but perhaps my searches have been lucky.
about answers.com, yeah, it seems jon doesn't like that site very much. But there are lots of other uglies in there, so I don't think it's just an "ugly" thing, there must be some other criteria he's going by.
Slightly off topic, I was wondering if you guys could help me with a WF tech support problem. It seems that every time someone on my ignore list posts on any of my threads lately, someone else on that same, 5-member ignore list is forced to log into wickedfire, find my thread, and post something immediately afterwards too.
The result is a bunch of threads with these on them somewhere:
They are often accompanied by low ratings on the threads... It's so odd, happens every time I post a thread lately... Must be a glitch. Should I just ask jon to fix it?
about answers.com, yeah, it seems jon doesn't like that site very much. But there are lots of other uglies in there, so I don't think it's just an "ugly" thing, there must be some other criteria he's going by.
Slightly off topic, I was wondering if you guys could help me with a WF tech support problem. It seems that every time someone on my ignore list posts on any of my threads lately, someone else on that same, 5-member ignore list is forced to log into wickedfire, find my thread, and post something immediately afterwards too.
The result is a bunch of threads with these on them somewhere:
They are often accompanied by low ratings on the threads... It's so odd, happens every time I post a thread lately... Must be a glitch. Should I just ask jon to fix it?
That's weird because you seem to have plenty of time to post these inane no effort threads lately. Somebody else always has to pick up the slack, and this time it was dynamicsoul.
Dunno man, per quantcast they're pulling 150k uniques a month. Seems extremely low
PS: duckduckgo must be the most idiotic product name I've ever heard
Doubt that's correct, they are the default search engine on the second most popular linux distro and a couple others, that alone would be more than 150k, even if most users switch to google.
Weird because Alexa.com is telling a different story. Both Alexa.com and Quantcast are eyeballs and not very accurate; Quantcast has been way off for many of my sites.
We'll have to agree to disagree on the brand name.
If you can decrypt data on this page http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
This is from wikipedia:
Yeah name, who knows, maybe the very fact it's "stupid" helped it get to where it is now
Something about that name really appeals to me. Plus ducks seem really funny to me for some reason. I'm surprised LukeP didn't fall in love with this engine instead since it features a cartoon duck and is legitimately awesome. It's basically the complete opposite of EdiSerps.
I wouldn't say DDG is a stupid name, didn't you play "Duck Duck Goose" when you were a kid?
DDG is my default search engine, mostly because of the bang commands and stuff like instant results from Wolfram|Alpha. I'm pretty sure they've had positive revenue for a year or two, if you look up Gabriel Weinberg's posts on HN he's pretty open about the company and seems pretty confident about the future of DDG.
There are still plenty of searches that I need to run again with !G, but at least he's got his own crawler and algos supplementing the Bing data, not some lame manual intervention. DDG is doing the right thing by focusing on specialized tools and community. Google will always have more data and more programmers, so challenging Google outright on quality is just dumb - you can't out gun them, you have to approach the problem (I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to identify "the problem") from a different perspective.
DDG is my default search engine, mostly because of the bang commands and stuff like instant results from Wolfram|Alpha. I'm pretty sure they've had positive revenue for a year or two, if you look up Gabriel Weinberg's posts on HN he's pretty open about the company and seems pretty confident about the future of DDG.
There are still plenty of searches that I need to run again with !G, but at least he's got his own crawler and algos supplementing the Bing data, not some lame manual intervention. DDG is doing the right thing by focusing on specialized tools and community. Google will always have more data and more programmers, so challenging Google outright on quality is just dumb - you can't out gun them, you have to approach the problem (I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to identify "the problem") from a different perspective.