[GRLUG] Google problem?

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 into a favorite of web geeks who haunt Reddit (owned by
> Wired.com’s parent corporation) and Hacker News. Using the web results from
> Bing (via 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

By and large, yeah, although I use the !bang syntax a lot. (Doesn't
hurt that !rosettacode searches Rosetta Code, so I've got some
additional mileage out of it. :) )


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