Comments on: DuckDuckGo: A Single Founder Gets An Army Of Fans To Take On Google – with Gabriel Weinberg

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give me more search results « Rational Idealist — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:03:20 +0000

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By: Try DuckDuckGo: the friendly search engine « Zaddyman: librarian by nature

Try DuckDuckGo: the friendly search engine « Zaddyman: librarian by nature — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:05:55 +0000

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By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:25:00 +0000

I am another volunteer, and I must say: Gabriel’s work on connecting with users is really working out great. I remember the first time I found DuckDuckGo, I used the feedback button to give an idea. To my surprise, Gabriel personally responded less than an hour later. Sure, he turned down the suggestion, but just the idea that the founder and sole employee (at the time) had actually responded to me in person, definitely gave me a good feeling about the project. In fact, I can say that the friendly environment (email, forums, IRC channel, etc) is what made me especially eager to help out in whatever way possible. :)

By: Hadi Laasi

Hadi Laasi — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:41:00 +0000

I loved it when you asked him about doubts, I’ve been thinking along the same lines as your questioning did… (i.e. look at all these amazing people who have accomplished soooo much in their lives.. and here I am wasting my time on something thats going to fail etc)… …and I’ll admit that gets a bit depressing. Watching mixergy is one of the ways I keep up beat… so, thanks :)

By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:22:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Boyter, thanks for this. Coming from you, a guy who helps out DDG, it means a lot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:20:00 +0000

Well I found this quite interesting Andrew. A lot of it I was aware of but it did fill in some gaps in my understanding.

I think personally that the reason DDG is doing well against Google is by not attacking Google through technology but people. To compete against Google on their home ground is foolish unless you have unlimited money like Microsoft with Bing, see Cuil as a classic example.Note, I am one of those anonymous people who contributes to DuckDuckGo behind the scenes.