[GRLUG] Google problem?

[Bob Kline]

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/blekko-duckduckgo-partner/

**
On the other, there is Gabriel Weinberg, a one-man band who has built
DuckDuckGo <http://duckduckgo.com/> into a favorite of web geeks who haunt
Reddit<http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers.html>
(owned
by Wired.com’s parent corporation) and Hacker News. Using the web results
from Bing (via BOSS <http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/>) and a custom
crawler designed to find and remove spam from results, Weinberg is now
handling 2 million queries a month.
**

Apparently duckduckgo is basically Bing
with a filter.

So it appears to be better than google?
At least for your uses anyway?

   -- Bob


On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a pretty hardcore user of duckduckgo these days. I only fall back
> to Google if I can't find what I'm looking for through ddg.
>
> http://duckduckgo.com/
> http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
> http://duckduckgo.com/tech.html
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:52 PM, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net>
> wrote:
> > I won't even suggest bing.. but the thought gave me a laugh.
> >
> > seriously... any other favorite search engines people like?
> >
> > On 8/27/2011 12:48 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> >>
> >>> You can prepend a "+" before any word that MUST be in the search
> results,
> >>> so
> >>> this works:
> >>>
> >>> +zebra +rs232 +cable +diagram
> >>>
> >>> The opposite is true, too, you can use "-" to exclude results:
> >>>
> >>> +zebra -animal +rs232 +cable +diagram
> >>>
> >>> -Kevin
> >>>
> >> Tried it, but only ONE of the returned links actually has "zebra" in the
> >> content.
> >>
> >>        Lee
> >>
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