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Klen 06-24-2011 08:51 AM

Blekko look like a joke,especially if ODP people are founders where you needed to pay editor 5000$ if you want to add your link there.

Chris 06-24-2011 08:58 AM

horrible results

looked up some basic products and they are all major blog spam pages

TheDoc 06-24-2011 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by KlenTelaris (Post 18237570)
Blekko look like a joke,especially if ODP people are founders where you needed to pay editor 5000$ if you want to add your link there.

So.... what you're saying is, you never checked it out?

AdultKing 06-24-2011 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by dazzling (Post 18237562)
It seems they are drawing results from around 30 resources, Im guessing Bing is the dominant here.
They do mention they also have their own crawler....http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html

It may be as time goes by they may develop and rely on that crawler more.

From their website....Where do you get your results?
From over 30 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko.

Any idea how many servers their using to power all this?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/...hitecture.html

and

http://www.businessinsider.com/gabri...kduckgo-2011-1

answers a bit about architecture, in the second link he answers questions.

Kiopa_Matt 06-24-2011 10:31 AM

Nice search engine, but DuckDuckGo? Isn't that a game we all played when we were 3? "Duck, duck, duck, duck, goose!"

Just seems a weird name of a search engine. "Just Google it" versus "Just DuckDuckGo it".

Chosen 06-24-2011 01:29 PM

Not working for me.
Quote:

Safe search is on. No safe search results.
:pimp

dazzling 06-24-2011 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by KlenTelaris (Post 18237570)
Blekko look like a joke,especially if ODP people are founders where you needed to pay editor 5000$ if you want to add your link there.

You are right, Blekko is the biggest joke on the internet and I will give you a classic example of just how pathetic this search engine is and why their heading in the wrong direction.

A while ago there was a discussion on Blekko on one of the webmaster forums, everyone was given a challenge to find very hard to get information on the internet using Google, Bing and Blekko search. In the end we could only find 3 websites on the internet with the information. All three were listed in the top 5 serps on google and bing. Blekko had none. And the reason why blekko had none was because they had banned the only websites that actually had the information. And that is why Blekko are idiots and their search engine is a joke. All they do is sit around banning websites till they have now got to the point that no-one can find the information their seeking on blekko because its all banned. Talk about a bunch of idiots that run blekko. Blekko need to stop banning websites and start focusing on delivering the best results.

dazzling 06-24-2011 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiopa_Matt (Post 18237804)
Nice search engine, but DuckDuckGo? Isn't that a game we all played when we were 3? "Duck, duck, duck, duck, goose!"

Just seems a weird name of a search engine. "Just Google it" versus "Just DuckDuckGo it".


From their website....

What's with the name?
It is derived from Duck Duck Goose, but it's not a metaphor?really. If you're wondering how you would turn that into a verb...Duck it!

papill0n 06-24-2011 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDoc (Post 18234909)
Lol... Blekko was created by one of the founders of the Open Directory Project. He's done work for Sun, Aol, Netscape, and other crap... him and his partner run Blekko and are far from teenagers.

It's MUCH more than a search engine, it's a research engine!

you gotta admit it sounds his post did describe a lot ODP editors

TheDoc 06-24-2011 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by papill0n (Post 18238951)
you gotta admit it sounds his post did describe a lot ODP editors

Yes, I guess that is true..

I don't think they'll make the same mistake twice though.

dazzling 06-25-2011 02:50 AM

Interesting article on how the owner of DuckDuckGo spent $7,000 on a billboard in tech-heavy San Francisco to stick it up Google....http://www.businessinsider.com/indie...tention-2011-1

Klen 06-25-2011 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDoc (Post 18237700)
So.... what you're saying is, you never checked it out?

I did,that is why i say it's joke(based on their search results)

acrylix 06-25-2011 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii (Post 18237239)
Really?
I think its shit. SERPs are so far off its not even funny. Can I get some of what u guys are smokin?

If you're searching adult terms, make sure you have safe search turned off. After turning that off, I got quite good results for what I was looking for. Seems kind of lame that it's on by default. I'd be willing to bet that a decent number of people searching for porn will not think of turning it off. They will just assume DuckDuckGo is crap after a couple of tries and dump it. Guess they want to please parents by blocking adult by default.

acrylix 06-25-2011 03:50 PM

Also, I see one of my sites in their results has a nice red circle next to it which says "This site may be harmful" when hovering over it. Why might my site containing absolutely no viruses or exploits be considered harmful? Because some German kooks over at MyWot.com rated it down as "Nix für Kids und Jugendliche" (Not for kids and young people). Yeah, no shit sherlock...it's a fucking porn site. :error

I see a bunch of perfectly safe porn sites in their results with this bogus rating thanks to MyWot. Gives an impression of a virus on the site or something, when it's really just some do-gooders rating porn down.

Anything which brings some pain to Google I'm down to get behind. But not while they have this kind of BS warning system going on. They get rid of that, and I'm down to promote them everywhere I can.

$5 submissions 06-25-2011 03:53 PM

ODP = more corrupt than the bureaucracies of some Third World countries. Good luck getting listed in a competitive niche

dazzling 06-25-2011 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acrylix (Post 18240081)
Also, I see one of my sites in their results has a nice red circle next to it which says "This site may be harmful" when hovering over it. Why might my site containing absolutely no viruses or exploits be considered harmful? Because some German kooks over at MyWot.com rated it down as "Nix für Kids und Jugendliche" (Not for kids and young people). Yeah, no shit sherlock...it's a fucking porn site. :error

I see a bunch of perfectly safe porn sites in their results with this bogus rating thanks to MyWot. Gives an impression of a virus on the site or something, when it's really just some do-gooders rating porn down.

Anything which brings some pain to Google I'm down to get behind. But not while they have this kind of BS warning system going on. They get rid of that, and I'm down to promote them everywhere I can.

You should post this over at their forum, they seem very receptive to this sort of information. Thats one of the things I like about DuckDuckGo, you can speak to the owner direct and he responds.

dazzling 06-26-2011 03:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pornopete (Post 18240611)
going to try this, googles results lately have become quite shitty. Getting harder to find stuff I'm looking for.

Yes your right, but its not just that googles results have become crap since the panda update, but that they are an evil that is out of control. So using and promoting some alternative search engines on the internet helps to protect the freedom of the internet.

d-null 12-18-2012 11:13 PM

interesting that duckduckgo is doing an advertising push recently :2 cents:

Thom Holwerda, who reviewed the search engine for OSNews, praised its privacy features and shortcuts to site-specific searches as well as criticizing Google for, "...track[ing] pretty much everything you do", particularly because of the risk of such information being subject to a U.S. government subpoena. [34]

In 2012, in response to accusations that it was a monopoly, Google identified DuckDuckGo as a competitor. Weinberg was reportedly "pleased and entertained" by that acknowledgment.[24]


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