DuckDuckGo featured on Lifehacker

DuckDuckGo just needs a better logo and a better name and it'd be major league. They've got the difficult part down, but there's no way any real company or serious non-hacker will take them seriously the way they are now.<p>I want a search engine whose design, name, logo, and style inspire me with confidence and reassurance. I want to see power, I want to see professionalism. I don't want to play games with a duck that lucks like it was drawn by an amateur. I think spending a mere 1k on design and branding will have an incredible impact on DDD now that it's really beginning to get off the ground and catch the eye of people outside the HN/Reddit communities.

Congrats Gabriel! Glad to see your efforts paying of (at least in mindshare) lately.<p>Keep adding good features (and taking away bad ones) and listening to your users and you should be golden.<p>I personally tend to agree with those that say that the name/logo is holding you back (I have a sense of humor and don't take it too seriously, but a lot of people are probably scared off), but it's your thing and you should take it into the direction that you feel will work best.

The only thing I'm annoyed about DDG is its over-reliance on Javascript. Now I'm no luddite; i enjoy the flexibility and power javascript brings.<p>However I think the first page of results should come with the page response. For people like me with crappy bandwidth, there is a noticeable lag before the first 10 results appear. I'm reasonably happy with the content though; it does an acceptable job of replacing google.

DDG's founder has officially won me over. On my little blog I keep (harrywolff.com) I made a post about Duck Duck Go and Gabe managed to find me and my post. Thank you Gabe. Keep up the very awesome work.

No mention of the privacy aspect though! Shame<p>I wonder if that is interesting - or simply an oversight.<p>EDIT: they've edited it in since I read the story... (just checked the original tab I opened)

Please make a mobile version. With Opera mini the search box is larger than the screen and half of it is shown out of the screen when the page loads.

I really enjoy watching the progression of DDG and the traction it's gaining. I admire Gabriel Weinberg for working so hard towards it.

The new category thing is annoying, if I search for 'django' I don't even get a list of links (the top one should be the python django framework) I get a list of things named django. I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of a bunch of junk to get the django web framework link. Maybe make that category thing less aggressive or something one can turn off in the settings.