DuckDuckGo Reaches 100 Million searches/day

[brotherhood of LAN]

[duckduckgo.com...]

As found on Hacker News
[news.ycombinator.com...]

[w3dk]

I want to use DuckDuckGo and I've tried using it for extended periods, but often I just can't find what I'm looking for and end up switching back to the big-G in frustration, which somehow manages to get the result I wanted! (?) Grrr.

How do I improve my "Duck-Foo"?

[engine]

DDG's traffic chart looks interesting.

[duckduckgo.com...]

The more searches it achieves the more it can invest in its infrastructure.

@w3dk
I would guess the problem is that the sources of data just don't have nearly as much volume as G.

For a reminder, DDG gets it's data from several sources, including Bing, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, Yahoo Search Boss, and it's own webcrawler, DuckDuckBot.

[brotherhood of LAN]

@w3dk

I've seen sources that suggest Bing's index could potentially be 1/5th or even a 10th of the size of Google's (there or thereabouts, somewhere in the UK CMA report about Google)

One way to sort it is to use the !g bang in DDG. I don't use DDG but AFAIK that allows you to quickly get G results when DDG has failed you.