Developers and DuckDuckGo
February 24, 2012
More rah-rah-rah for Duck Duck Go in “Why I Use DuckDuckGo, and You Should Too” at Clif Reeder’s blog. I use the service because it doesn’t track my search terms. Apparently for developers, there is an even more compelling reason: Reeder says Duck Duck Go speeds up his work. The write up explains:
“The way that DDG does this is by trading off text directives for GUI/mouse interactions. Assuming you can type faster than move and click a cursor, this is a big difference. To me, it’s like the difference between using Vim and a GUI based text editor.”
An example follows which demonstrates the advantage; one can see how much faster the user here got what he needed. Other advantages cited by the article include inline YouTube results; the quick transfer to a Google search if needed with the command “!g”; and, my favorite, the site’s set of no- track, no-sell, no-personalization policies.
It is good to see my favorite engine getting some more press. Keep in mind that metadata search systems can be blocked from primary sources of results.
Cynthia Murrell, February 24, 2012
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