The Flip Side of the DuckDuckGo Bandwagon

Jonathan Christopher on his less than stellar DuckDuckGo experience: >I’m about 3 weeks in and so far I’d rate DuckDuckGo about a 7 out of 10. The search takes longer, and results are not what I expect. I often find myself hitting the 5th or 6th link instead of the first I found very common…

Jonathan Christopher on his less than stellar DuckDuckGo experience:
>I’m about 3 weeks in and so far I’d rate DuckDuckGo about a 7 out of 10. The search takes longer, and results are not what I expect. I often find myself hitting the 5th or 6th link instead of the first I found very common when using Google.

His complaint isn’t uncommon. I have had a lot of people switch to DuckDuckGo as a result of my comments about it here — personally I love it — but it *is* slower than Google.

I, however, have not had less relevant results — in fact I think the results on DuckDuckGo are of a far higher quality than what I get out of Google.

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