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Pro-Privacy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Hits 30 Million Daily Searches, Up 50% In a Year (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Some nice momentum for privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo which has just announced it's hit 30 million daily searches a year after reaching 20 million -- a year-on-year increase of 50%. Hitting the first 10 million daily searches took the search engine a full seven years, and then it was another two to get to 20 million. So as growth curves go it must have required patience and a little faith in the run up. It also recently emerged that DDG had quietly picked up $10 million in VC funding, which is only its second tranche of external investment. The company told us this financing would be used to respond to an expanding opportunity for pro-privacy business models, including by tuning its search engine for more local markets and expanding its marketing channels to "have more of a global focus."
I'm sure this is a troll but 97% or thereabout of corporate media coverage on Trump is negative so... I'd expect any search engine to reflect that whatever that companies particular political affiliation.
If you use a VPN and not the Chrome browser Google search will sometimes do a captcha check where you have to click on all the images of cars or storefronts or crosswalks. Because of this it makes DuckDuckGo the default choice for those users.
You can verify yourself by using Opera on a VPN after you clear Opera's cache and cookies
Calvin:Do you believe in the devil? Hobbes:I'm not sure man needs the help.
Got fired did yea. I just got that vibe, due to lack of any detail, on what the issues are. And you just want to hurt Google, who probably had hurt you.
I am not saying Google is a saint. But if you are going to preface your opinion with "As a former Google engineer" it is implying that you have some insider knowledge on sometime on some interesting tidbits. Then when you elaborate with reasons such as "censorship, spying, and information control is unforgivable" this isn't anything new to us.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
This is a good thing.
It is neither a good thing nor a bad thing. What it does tell us is that it is not a popular thing. Increasing a tiny number by 50% is not actually very impressive compared to growing a big number by a smaller percentage. For Apple computer to grow by just 10% next year they will have to generate more business than the entire revenue of eBay over the same period. That is FAR more impressive than DDG growing 50% from close to zero.
I dunno about you, but I much prefer to use less "popular" things in life.
I don't give a shit if something is popular or not. I care if it does what I want/need and provides good value. The only reason I consider something's popularity is to evaluate whether that popularity or lack thereof will cause me problems. For example if a product is unpopular chances are that service and support for it are going to be hard to find in the future. Similarly I sometimes avoid something popular because of excessive crowds or because the popularity of it will cause my needs to be dismissed as unimportant.
I prefer the National Hockey League to the NFL, and DDG to Google, both on it's privacy model, as well as knowing that huge amounts of money drive corruption.
If you prefer the NHL to the NFL because hockey is your particular brand of vodka then that's fine, although calling the NHL unpopular is objectively kind of ridiculous. If you prefer it solely because it is less popular it means you are a hipster. You be you and use what works for you but I am not impressed by anyone who chooses something just because it is popular or explicitly because it is not.
Good enough. Generally I use DDG by default, and if that doesn't find it (last time, a few days ago, was errors for a discontinued bluetooth module) and then if google also fails I read the manual.
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
I'll have to try DuckDuckGo again. I used for a few weeks earlier this year, and I had to revert to Google - the quality of DuckDuckGo lagged, at the time, well behind that of Google's. I dislike Google more and more - in fact, they look like the MIcrosoft of old more and more with every passing day - but until an independent search engine reaches parity with Google's, I'll have to stick with it.
I don't think the Tech community has a Dim view of our ability to impact the world on a large scale. But our ability to affect on a small scale that affects our lives seems to be the harder push.
Trying to get work to make business decision on products not from the sales of the product, but from a good understanding of the underlining infrastructure behind it.
Trying to get your friends and family to be more secure with their systems, so they are not breaking down all the time and asking you to fix it.
Having people realize as a tech professional your Job isn't "Fixing Computers" (My apologies to those who are actually in systems repair you are a professional too)
Having people with with basic understanding trying to tell us how to do things, and get pissed off because what we do is too complex for them.
Sure if there is a big problem with Microsoft, Google, Facebook. The tech community on the whole has a power to put them in their place. But most of our chips on our shoulder is from the small things that happen daily.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Incompetent? Can you please tell me the level of Unemployment prevailing at this moment?
Trying to use the unemployment rate as an example of Trump's competency doesn't make a very good argument.
... or can we?
Just look at the 10 year graph of the unemployment rate https://tradingeconomics.com/u...
All Trump managed to do is not screw up the trend that very clearly was established under the previous president.
And it's the same for wage growth: https://tradingeconomics.com/u... although when you compare/contrast vs inflation https://tradingeconomics.com/u... real world wage growth has actually decreased the last two years vs the previous two years.
You can try arguing GDP next, but, https://tradingeconomics.com/u... https://tradingeconomics.com/u... again we're mostly still seeing the same kind of numbers/trends that began in mid/late 2010.
Now, lets have a look at something that did drastically change under Trump, Health Insurance. https://tradingeconomics.com/u...
See that big giant increase in the price index at the end of 2017 compared to the rest of the graph? That's the result of the GOP gutting parts of the ACA and Trump refusing to pay out the by law guaranteed Medicare/Medicaid subsidies.
Okay, I'm sure you want something to criticize the previous president for, so here we go: https://tradingeconomics.com/u...
Those are some pretty bad deficit numbers under Obama's first few years. The country hadn't run that big an annual deficit since WW2. On the other hand, he used that deficit to drag the country out of a pretty bad economic recession left behind by the W Bush administration and managed to decrease it back down to 2008 levels by the end of his term. Unfortunately, instead of the deficit continuing to go down under Trump, it's gone up instead thanks to a massive tax give away to the rich and corporations. https://tradingeconomics.com/u...
My bad, I guess that wasn't as much of a criticism of the last guy as the graph initially made it out to be.
Ok, here's one we can really criticize Obama for, excessively increased military spending: https://tradingeconomics.com/u...
Oops, sorry. I guess it was actually Bush who decided to start a war in Iraq in 2003 that didn't end until they hauled out Bin Laden in 2011. Oh, let's not forget the War on Terror in Afghanistan from 2001-2014 either, that at least in was in response to us being attacked first on 9/11. Except, 15 out of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia...