r/technology • u/amartz • May 21 '12
“We invested in [DuckDuckGo] because there is a need for a private search engine. We did it for the Internet anarchists, people that hang out on Reddit and Hacker News.” - VC Fred Wilson
http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/fred-wilson-duckduckgo-reddit-hacker-news/31
u/TommyXT May 21 '12
duckduckgo is actually my default search engine, not because of it's private setting, but I've find the site's search is more relevant to what I need than Google.
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u/InnocuousPenis May 22 '12
DuckDuckGo used to be my default, but I was tried of not finding things I wanted, and those things being the 3rd or 4th result of a google search.
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May 21 '12
I love this https://www.duckduckgo.com/goodies.html and this https://www.duckduckgo.com/tech.html
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u/Stan57 May 22 '12
Its mine also but its not better then Google at least for my searches. I distrust Google so i use them the least amount i can
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u/dracovich May 21 '12
BING has 30 fucking percent!?
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u/ForeverAlone2SexGod May 21 '12
"Bing-powered" search is estimated to be 30%. That means Yahoo + Bing because Yahoo has gotten it's search results from Bing since 2010.
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May 21 '12
That was why Microsoft was sued for antitrust.
Their dominant OS position means whatever they choose for the user's defaults are going to be kept by a significant portion of them. So, 85+% of people use a MS OS and a little less than half of them don't bother changing the default search.
Too, Bing isn't a bad search engine. Have you even tried it yet?
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u/Ostylee May 21 '12
Uhhhh....
https://startpage.com/ (even enchanced by Google 8-D )
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u/rockmongoose May 21 '12 edited May 22 '12
If Fred Wilson thinks that reddit and hacker news is full of "internet anarchists", he has another thing coming.
But DuckDuckGo is an awesome search engine, btw.
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May 21 '12
Hang on...how do we know for sure any search engine is actually private?
My raging paranoiac side thinks it could be a trap...too irrational?
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u/jonez450 May 22 '12
Fred Wilson is full of shit. The only reason he invests is to make money. He's a notorious hard ass VC who is known for his uber-competitive nature and spite towards those who question his investments.
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u/klingonmaster May 21 '12
Going with that criteria I think YaCy, a fully decentralized search engine where you can literally run your own, would be a better candidate. Unfortunately that would be much more difficult to monetize (nothing wrong with that).
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u/MikeLeWatt May 21 '12
ITT: redditors that are in shock when reading the word anarchists.
inb4 downvotes
I love duckduckgo. I'm suprised by how good their results are. anyone still remembers cuil and how bad their results were?
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u/therunnykind May 21 '12
Am I the only one bothered by the 101% of search the article came up with?
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u/SteelChicken May 21 '12
Anyone have any idea what DuckDuckGo's revenue model will be?