DuckDuckGo is growing

Congratulations Gabriel. DDG is invaluable for those of us who do not want our searches logged into a database, who do not want search results sorted by whether or not an acquaintance has "liked" a page. I wear my DDG t-shirt out and have been asked about it a couple of times. I wear it happily.

I tried switching to DDG, but found that I was really missing Google's date range filter. Especially for troubleshooting searches where you can get results that are relevant to the search terms but have obsolete old content, I almost always hit "past year" or even "past month". I know about the sort by date feature in DDG, but I really want date as a filter on the whole result set, with a sort by relevance within the filtered results.

The !bang syntax is definitely one of DDG's best features. Being able to access a few hundred site searches with a keyword is incredibly powerful, and saves time on creating quick searches in Firefox.<p>(The full list of !bang commands <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html</a>)

What I like is no zooming car ads blocking content like on Yahoo or the unhelpful auto-entry and auto-guessing features that gets in my way like on Google (e.g. searching for what Google thinks I meant instead of what I actually typed, did Google buy Microsoft Bob and Office Assistant Clippy?)

Gabriel is taking on a challenge that extends beyond Google's reach, the filter bubble. Luckily he's been able to implement several human curation strategies to make a better search engine based on reliable search results. On the flip side, Google has been fostering a limiting perspective on the world's information due to their personal relevance algorithms which drive more ad clicks.

I was always impressed with the speed of response by the ddg team. I'd report an issue, and within minutes (sometimes seconds) I'd have a reply from the ddg team. Broken queries were fixed in days, sometimes hours.

I think its a good move. In my opinion you can only play the one-man-band card for a while and then you need to come up with other reasons why press should write about you. DDG has innovated quickly and been able to address user's needs at the right time when they were discussed in the press, picking up the loyal users on the way...

Thanks for building and growing DDG! Have been using it for awhile now as my default search engine and I love it.

I love <i>all</i> of DDG, except its speed (might be latency, I'm in Europe)

I quite like DDG but from my region (NZ) it's just too slow compared to Google. I look forward to when you're big enough to have datacentres in Auckland or even Sydney.

I go to "goodies" and "zero click info sources". I see this line:-<p>Language SE - quint in quintessential<p>So I clicky the link, but it appears to have nothing to do with Stack Exchange. Some of the others work - Numote Big Bang Schedule has a nice box at top of the search results.<p>ALSO: Do you have a printable cheat sheet for all the bang syntax and extras? A4, mono, please!

Is there a way to get google results instead of yahoo results? I don't mean using the !g syntax, but getting actual google results in the format of duckduckgo.<p>I love the site, but alot of the time, Yahoo's results are weak.

Congratulations, Gabriel! I am very happy for you. DDG is my default search engine, and I suggest that friends and family use it. Just wondering why you don't use https as a default setting. Also, sometimes I find the continuous scrolling of search results makes it a bit more difficult to keep track of where I have been than with Google's default 10 results per page. Consequently, sometimes I find it easier to quickly scan Google search results. I wonder if there is something further that you could tweak in this regard? Keep up the great work!

So what's the plan for making money with DDG?

I quickly used DDG for the first time for some searches and you guys place WAY too much emphasis on exact query match domains. Also, including .com.au addresses in a local search when I'm in the US is probably not a lot of help.<p>Best of luck.

DDG is a great search engine. I was stoked to see that the Midori[1] browser adopted it as the default search engine. However, if I can't seem to find something there, I try Scroogle with SSL[2]<p>1 - <a href="http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html</a><p>2 - <a href="https://ssl.scroogle.org/" rel="nofollow">https://ssl.scroogle.org/</a>