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DuckDuckGo Is Giving Away $225,000 To Support Open Source Projects (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google Search competitor DuckDuckGo announced it will be giving away a total of $225,000 to support nine open source projects, each project will receive $25,000. DuckDuckGo said it performed 3 billion searches in 2015. It differs from many other search engines as it offers private, anonymous internet search. It doesn't gather information about you to sell ads to marketeers, like Google. Instead, it shows generic ads as it's part of the Microsoft/Bing/Yahoo ad network. It also has revenue-sharing agreements with certain companies in the Linux Open Source worlds, and makes money from select affiliate links. The $225,000 DuckDuckGo is giving away is chump change compared to the $100 million Google gives away in grants ever year. However, for the select projects, it should still be very beneficial. Last year, DuckDuckGo gave away a total of $125,000 to open source projects, so it's nice to see them donate an extra $100,000 to a good cause.
Bing and Yahoo don't seem to offer the same quality of results so I wonder about Duckie?
All the "free" marketting doesn't hurt either.
A bake-off using the duck meme:
DuckDuckGo
Bing
Google
Question is, where are they getting all this money?
Buddy! Where have you been?
OP is kinda like an angry Donald Trump cow poster.
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/ntp-needs-money-is-a-foundation-the-answer/d/d-id/1319557
Can anybody translate this for me? I have the vaguest hope that there may be some actual value embedded here. But I sure can't divine what's being said.
Am I off base? Not clued to the lingo? Or are these just the ranting of a loon, or the random text generation of an out of date bot?
Since it wasn't in the article, here's a list of recipients.
I like the basic idea of crowd funding, but ALL of the websites I've examined so far have been more or less terrible. The more "successful" are more like lotteries than anything else. Clear success criteria are needed (and the same model could be applied to slashdot, too).
Before I want to donate my hard earned money I think the project proposal needs to be quite complete. It should have a budget and a schedule. Neither has to be perfect, but they have to be realistic at minimum. Required resources including the people need to be described, and I even think the serious contributors should be guaranteed some compensation from the budget (though discounted from the top market rate in exchange for the freedom of choosing to do the work). The project proposal needs a good sanity check to make sure nothing crucial is important, with sufficient testing being the most frequent omission in software-related projects. Most importantly to my way of thinking there should be clear success criteria so the donors will know what success looks like.
Sounds like preparing the project is a lot of work, but there has to be some planning for good results. However, the up-front work also justifies a commission for the agent (I think of the agent as a "charity share brokerage") who helps make sure it gets done properly and who also evaluates the finished project and reports on the results to the donors and the world. Hopefully the donors are going to find out how much good they've accomplished so they can be motived to donate to future projects.
Too busy to write more just now, but lots of details available upon request, or even more interested to hear your suggested improvements.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Agreed, his babbling is undecipherable. But from what I've read on this page, the main consensus is that his tool is just outright useless.
$20 million dollars. I'm a very good cause. And notably make more.
... people love this search engine so much. Google absolutely destroys it when comes to being able to actually find things.
If I want to actually find what I'm looking for, I use Google (well, StartPage) so that I can rely on the top 3 results instead of having to dig through 50 off topic hits first.
"Last year, DuckDuckGo gave away a total of $125,000 to open source projects, so it's nice to see them donate an extra $100,000 to a good cause."
The way I see it, they gave away $225,000. So how did it end up as extra $100,000?
Who the hell is this "APK" and why is this tool sending me e-mails???
...still in Russia? I wouldn't expect any privacy from Putin's cyber-thugs.
I WIPED ARSTECHNICA's 'best & brightest' (weak) OUT easily in 2003-2006 @ Windows IT Pro easily - Jeremy Reimer got his website removed by Shaw of Canada his ISP & hosting provider + he was put on a tracking ticket by them for email harassment... his "henchman" Jay Little said "I am an EXPERT on Exchange" which much to his dismay worked against him @ "The Memory Optimization Hoax" where I proved to them AND Dr. Mark Russinovich (former "co-worker" of mine @ Sunbelt where we retailed our wares there & he bitched I outsold his work, awww) that that technology unhalted & sped up frozen Exchange Servers USING MICROSOFT'S OWN DOCUMENTATION TO DO IT (clearmem.exe is the same tech, but not GUI, & I designed the 1st program of that nature in GUI no less).
Jay Little then trolled & stalked me to other websites where I annihilated him on ramdrives as well - he was banned + had his website @ CrystalTech removed by that hosting provider for libeling me.
FOOLS... you're the same kind of scum, trolling me by unidentfiable ac posts, but you're just as easy to dispatch with truth & facts.
APK
P.S.=> Bad move bringing up the DOLTS of Arstechnica - all they can do is "gossip" like old biddies behind my back, BUT OUTSIDE THEIR "PRIVATE PLAYPEN"? The results are QUITE different, see above, lol... apk
" The $225,000 DuckDuckGo is giving away is chump change compared to the $100 million Google gives away in grants ever year."
Well fuck you too. DuckDuckGo doesn't require you to sell your soul as Google requires.
See subject boys: Is that "the best ya got?" Yes. My reasons for NOT open 'sores'ing' my code was from GOOGLE no less who isn't able to prove ME wrong either... lol!
* HUGE mistake that Google... huge!
APK
P.S.=> It's NOT easy being "world-class" (like me) & impossible to prove me wrong on hosts boys - your lack of results here proves it for me... apk
..that they're doing fine.
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
But that's expected, since it's basically a nerd friendly front end for Bing.
These pseudo-privacy-friendy search engine companies cause me grave concern. There are very few of them (DuckDuckGo, Disconnect.me, Startpage) and all promise something entirely unverifiable: where it the source code to their search engines? Even more concerning: where on earth did DuckDuckGo get all of that money if not from ad revenue and selling user search information?
The only positive advance can come from decentralizing search, but in the meantime there are Searx instances where at least the source code is available to all under the Affero GPLv3+ license, which is the only decent license for software that users access through a network. "Cloud computing" is a terrible name for this. It is using software executing on someone else's computer: that is essentially what so-called "Web apps" are, and AGPLv3+ protects the deserved liberties of users in a global internetworked world.
Now the benefit of Searx is the fact that anyone can run an instance of it, so we can choose where we proxy out from, but it still is merely a centralised glorified proxy to Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc. It does however have one of the best user interface and features of any search engine I have ever used.
There is an instance in the USA that is perhaps most popular:
http://searx.me/
And one in France from La Quadrature du Net (and associated Onion hidden service):
http://searx.laquadrature.net/
http://searchb5a7tmimez.onion/
And here is another Searx hidden service instance, no idea which country it is in:
http://ry2yhmjtylb6vtta.onion/
If one wants any decent level of anonymity, stop accessing search engines running non-free software and stop sending clearnet DNS requests and use an .onion Searx instance. Only then can one begin to have even an iota of defense searching the web.