I'm sure Gabriel will pass by here at some point so I want to ask a question: do you find that going into an industry where you have absolutely no "first mover" advantage, where several others are already "doing it better" and where those you're competing against are so insanely "better resourced" than you daunting or comforting?<p>I guess what I'm trying to learn from you is what your mental state is like on a day to day basis: are you a long term thinker? Do you believe that you have many many years to solve the problem well and compete? Do you believe that DDG may die at any minute but you simply don't care? Do you know unequivocally that you can do this better than anyone and it's just a matter of sticking it out?<p>Yeah. So that's my question :)
So did Hipmunk:<p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2087815_2088173_2088186,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...</a><p>...and AirBnB:<p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2087815_2088173_2088177,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...</a><p>The Instapaper guy is a long-time HN contributor, as well:<p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2087815_2087913_2087923,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...</a><p>The headline should really be changed to something neutral.
One of my sites was also listed. TouchArcade:
<a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2087815_2087939_2087933,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...</a><p>I was pretty psyched.
Congrats to DDG but wow Time has the worst navigation I've ever seen for a collection.<p>Where am I currently in that list? Where is the entire list? How do I start over? Go to the end? Why does it do full page reloads for every click?
How many of you are using it as your default search engine? I am. I don't think it's as good as Google, but I think it's good enough, some things are useful, like the quick links, and at least the user interface is cleaner, there is no stupid auto-complete etc.
For a start-up competing with Google in the search space - DDG has made all the right moves. Excellent PR and some well deserved respect to my favorite Search Engine. Kudos...
Link directly to duck duck go page:<p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2087815_2088176_2088178,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...</a>
The full list all on one page, FWIW (yes it's on my own blog), <a href="http://alicious.com/times-50-best-websites-2011/" rel="nofollow">http://alicious.com/times-50-best-websites-2011/</a>.
I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privacy policy?<p>I saw a commenter on the linked site state that duckduckgo is great for programming, what does this mean?
DearPhotograph.com is an amazing site, never seen it before<p>This one broke my heart for some reason:<p><a href="http://dearphotograph.com/post/8311735731/dear-photograph-if-i-could-turn-the-corner-in" rel="nofollow">http://dearphotograph.com/post/8311735731/dear-photograph-if...</a>
Darya Pino's site (<a href="http://summertomato.com/" rel="nofollow">http://summertomato.com/</a>) on there too.<p>I came across her site through Kevin Rose's introduction on G+.
Bleacher Report (#11 on the list) is looking for Ruby people in San Francisco. Great opportunity to work for a high traffic site and a fun company:<p><a href="http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering" rel="nofollow">http://bleacherreport.com/careers/engineering</a>
As much as this is obnoxious, pageview link-bait, they do have some smart calls. In addition to the YC crowd, Marco, DuckDuckGo, etc. I think they really highlighted some great blogs, including This is my Next, among others.
Great work DDG and yegg! I love DDG and have been using it for well over a year. The quality is just so good that anytime I get on computer set to search Google by default, I only get through a few searches before I'm compelled to head over to DDG.