Is DuckDuckGo a Long-Term Threat To Google?

v.laurie · 27. Apr 2012, 12:37 AM

Search Engine Land has a post about the potential of the search engine DuckDuckGo and whether it could ever challenge Google.

MidnightCowboy · 27. Apr 2012, 08:02 AM

Very interesting article - thanks Vic

More Linux distros now ship with DDG as standard which I guess is another indicator of how this trend is progressing.

eyeb · 28. Apr 2012, 12:20 AM

hm author and most people reviewing this search as being the same in long run seem to forget greed always wins out lol

as it gets bigger, it'll drop investors' interest and eventually their money... meaning they'll want to then turn the site into a money maker which doesn't sit with privacy...

yahoo/google/facebook/all other major sites all faced this and none won out on privacy front... I remember a time when each of these had good/decent privacy protection

edit: well maybe all is a bit much but can't deny a lot are... aside from wikipedia I'm hard pressed on another site that doesn't try to sell users something, or out right sell users to someone else

Odinbc · 29. Apr 2012, 09:09 PM

I use DuckDuckGo more than Google these days.

nsillk · 24. May 2012, 06:46 AM

DuckDuckGo can be a long term threat to Google. Although not new but another emerging threat is Bing. Google results are filled with ads these days and Bing is taking advantage of that. Bing is already gaining US market share so it wont be long before they start targeting global markets.

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28. Apr 2012, 12:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
eyeb Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Planet X Posts: 677	hm author and most people reviewing this search as being the same in long run seem to forget greed always wins out lol as it gets bigger, it'll drop investors' interest and eventually their money... meaning they'll want to then turn the site into a money maker which doesn't sit with privacy... yahoo/google/facebook/all other major sites all faced this and none won out on privacy front... I remember a time when each of these had good/decent privacy protection edit: well maybe all is a bit much but can't deny a lot are... aside from wikipedia I'm hard pressed on another site that doesn't try to sell users something, or out right sell users to someone else

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Odinbc Full Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Metro Vancouver, BC Posts: 78	I use DuckDuckGo more than Google these days.

24. May 2012, 06:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
nsillk Member Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 1	DuckDuckGo can be a long term threat to Google. Although not new but another emerging threat is Bing. Google results are filled with ads these days and Bing is taking advantage of that. Bing is already gaining US market share so it wont be long before they start targeting global markets.