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Papas Fritas writes:
"There's an interesting read today by John Paul Titlow at FastCoLabs about DuckDuckGo, a search engine launched in 2008 that is now doing 4 million search queries per day and growing 200-500% annually. DuckDuckGo's secret weapon is hardcore privacy. When you do a search from DuckDuckGo's website or one of its mobile apps, it doesn't know who you are. There are no user accounts. Your IP address isn't logged by default. The site doesn't use search cookies to keep track of what you do over time or where else you go online.
'If you look at the logs of people's search sessions, they're the most personal thing on the Internet,' says founder Gabriel Weinberg. 'Unlike Facebook, where you choose what to post, with search you're typing in medical and financial problems and all sorts of other things. You're not thinking about the privacy implications of your search history.' DuckDuckGo's no-holds-barred approach to privacy gives the search engine a unique selling point as Google gobbles up more private user data. 'It was extreme at the time,' says Weinberg. 'And it still may be considered extreme by some people, but I think it's becoming less extreme nowadays. In the last year, it's become obvious why people don't want to be tracked.'"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @03:23AM
Which engine does DDG use? Bing or google? I was under the impression they use bing, since i remember going there and there somewhere saying "powered by bing" or something, but now i tried to look it up, but i can't find shit from their site.
Anyway, i use startpage.com, they use google. Just like many here have said about DDG, you don't get all the results you would with google, but then again, you don't usually get that many relevant results with google either (it was different 15 years ago, when there weren't so many fucking ad pages and shit around).
(Score: 1) by timbim on Friday February 21 2014, @04:21AM
Yeah I could not find the association to bing either, thought I heard that too.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @04:30AM
> Which engine does DDG use? Bing or google?
You are aware that there are other ways to build a search engine than use an existing back-end right ? How do you think such back-ends exist in the first place.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @07:27AM
I am, but these days, who does that? Google, microsoft and that wolf something something
(Score: 2, Informative) by TheRaven on Friday February 21 2014, @05:23AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @11:35AM
Who ever tagged this redundant should link where this is exlained already or maybe not tag at all and let someone else do it if he's so damn lazy.