Comments on: DuckDuckGo: The Search Engine You Need to Meet

By: AlphaPoint

AlphaPoint — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:16:27 +0000

Great article. A few years back I worked for a technology that focused on search enhancement technology. I had a few emails back and forth with DDG fonder Gabe Weinberg, and he was very interested in finding ways to improve the search engine’s search functionality. The difference between DDG and the big players like Google and Bing is that DDG actually cares about the quality of their results and producing SERPs that give consumers exactly what they are looking for. It’s a great engine, hope it continues to gain traction.

By: Aenina

Aenina — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:01:32 +0000

This is the first time of heard of DuckDuckGo. I’ll see what they have forranking websites

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:22:49 +0000

Thank you very much for all this great information.

I will definitely check them out. DuckDuck Go, sound like a great alternative to google.

By: neenergy

neenergy — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:14:35 +0000

Reblogged this on nebraskaenergyobserver and commented: This is very interesting. I haven't tried it yet but. soon will. If you're at all worried about Google's [lack of] privacy, and you should be, you should too.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:36:43 +0000

DuckDuckGo has been one of my favourite search engines for a while now. I gave up using Google as a Search Engine a long time ago as it filters the results far too much for my liking. Getting a clean, unbiased search is almost impossible in Google now days – they insist on searching my local region instead of the entire web, even when logged out of Google. DuckDuckGo doesn’t do this. Other good search engines are https://www.ixquick.com/ and https://startpage.com/.

By: DuckDuckGo Open Source Search Engine | WP Sites

DuckDuckGo Open Source Search Engine | WP Sites — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:08:35 +0000

[...] Lorelle on WordPress has written a very extensive post about this fantastic open source search engine. [...]

By: runbei

runbei — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:59:21 +0000

A prime reason I would switch to DuckDuckGo is because, well, Google is now doing evil. Witness the thousands of people who followed Google’s rules for back-links with scrupulous honesty (not using back-link mills, or other dishonest means), only to have their incomes come crashing down, putting their families at economic risk, simply because the Google techies whimsically decided to change how backlinks affect search rankings.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:45:15 +0000

I didn't include that in my research. They index from a variety of sources and if you are in those sources you are already part of the their indexing. What would be more interesting to investigate is if they use XML sitemaps, which is the current method of "submitting" sitemaps since that is rarely necessary any more. Another good question would be to check Ping-o-Matic!, the default "pinger" to search engines for WordPress sites, to see if DuckDuckGo is included. Checking...they haven't updated their blog since 2009, and that is an update to let the world know they know that they haven't updated their site or blog in a while. LOL! I don't see DuckDuckGo on their list, but I know that they ping more than just the ones they've listed. Would be interesting to know that answer.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:29:26 +0000

Thanks for this Lorelle.

I checked them out and like the results.

Can you submit a sitemap to them?