Today I read about a new search engine on Lifehacker [ link ], and I have switched since then. Partly because of the fact that Google is indeed watching you, but mostly because it has some nifty features that Google hasn’t or hasn’t implemented as well.
The name is Duck Duck Go. Like any modern online entity, you can find them at multiple spots: on their site, on Twitter, on the founder’s blog, on Facebook.
Things I like most:
- Absence of clutter, much like how Google first started out. There is literally no advertising to be found.
- Less spam results. Searching for very general keywords typically results in pages that exist solely to redirect you to other link sites. Not the case here !
- Disambiguation, like we know it from searching Wikipedia for example, but this time ’round with search keywords. So it goes further than the obligatory and simple “Did you mean?”-functionality.
- Zero-click info: automatic recognition of keyword subject. Other search engines do this as well in some form, but Duck Duck Go takes it up a notch.
- !bang-searching: handy stuff. Read more.
- Keyboard ninja features: navigate the results etc. by keyboard.
Things I would like:
- Better recognition of (international) addresses: searching for my home address in Google works as expected (showing a map result), this does not (yet?) work in Duck Duck Go for my Belgian style address.
Take a look for yourself or compare with the common search engines.
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Google is ruling all around, so a very DARING post i would say! Though interesting!
arround the clock …… i like it
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Google is ruling all around, so a very DARING post i would say! Though interesting!
Other search engines do this as well in some form, but Duck Duck Go takes it up a notch.
Take a look for yourself or compare with the common search engines.
I’m going to switch just to get away from auto compleate