We have hundreds of easter-egg logos (featuring our friendly mascot Dax Brown) that surface when you make certain queries on our search engine. Our subreddit is trying to catch ‘em all. They’ve certainly caught a lot, currently 504, but we keep adding more so it’s a moving target. The total as of this post is 594. I’m the one personally adding them in my spare time just for fun and I recently did a
Thanx for this info. I am a user way, way out on the edge - beyond the last mile, perhaps. Thanx to Starlink, we finally have fast, reliable internet. We've used DDG since the beginning. Many, many times, I've found info on DuckDuckGo that was just not visible on Google. This is curious. Google actively limits and censors results now - to a surprising degree. As investors, with a 'tiny desk' family office, we seek to have access to a variety of sources, and DDG helps in that. Censorship is bad. The American "free speech" approach is the correct one - but one also has to understand the machinery of deception. But even reading lies, is educational. Please keep DDG available. Unfiltered search is a useful and fine thing. ;)
This is very cool, Gabriel. I’m often disappointed with what I managed to get done in any given week, but then I make a list of what I got done over the past year, or multiple years, and it’s a different feeling. I hope this felt good to put in writing.
For feature/writing requests, I often wonder is there is a browser-layer solution to improving my algorithmic feeds. I’m sure there is a version of Instagram and X that I would enjoy … I just don’t see it in the app or on my browser. I know there were some old attempts to develop browser extensions to tweak filtering, but they were always clunky and slow. With AI, seems like there are new opportunities to offer users more control while increasing privacy.
Thanks -- and duly noted. It's something we've thought about a bit on a longer list of other ideas, but haven't done too much on yet. The closest thing we have in our browsers is Duck Player, which shows you YouTube videos without as much tracking, and without influencing or showing you additional recommendations.
I’ve always been big on privacy and security, and this article is so good. I studied cryptography for two years, which pushed me deeper into caring about how privacy-first systems are built and why they matter. DuckDuckGo’s approach to protecting users has always stood out to me, and honestly, I’d genuinely love to work with DuckDuckGo someday and contribute to that mission.
Regarding #4, I seem to recall reading at one time that you used Bing's technology in some fashion - was that hearsay as well, or was there some truth to it?
We have a variety of search content partners, Bing being the biggest and providing a lot of the traditional web links. Other examples include Apple for maps, Trip Advisor for hotels, and Sports Radar for sports scores. Per our privacy policy, we never share any personal information with any of our partners that could lead to the creation of search histories. We partner simply to get high-quality search results, which is what people expect mainly switching to us from Google. If we don't have them, then they'll switch back.
Over time, as our in-house technology has developed further, more and more of the content page is being generated by us, and the layouts generally look very different in any case, even if certain content is similar. That said, there is some content that I can't see us ever fully generating. For example, maps are driven by literal satellites in the sky; I don't see us putting up our own satellites. I also don't see us going to sports games and collecting our own stats. For web links, as the U.S. v Google made clear, it generally costs upwards of one billion dollars a year to maintain a full web-scale index, which is money we don't have. AI holds promise to make that significnatly cheaper, and we're seeing how much cheaper right now.
Thanx for this info. I am a user way, way out on the edge - beyond the last mile, perhaps. Thanx to Starlink, we finally have fast, reliable internet. We've used DDG since the beginning. Many, many times, I've found info on DuckDuckGo that was just not visible on Google. This is curious. Google actively limits and censors results now - to a surprising degree. As investors, with a 'tiny desk' family office, we seek to have access to a variety of sources, and DDG helps in that. Censorship is bad. The American "free speech" approach is the correct one - but one also has to understand the machinery of deception. But even reading lies, is educational. Please keep DDG available. Unfiltered search is a useful and fine thing. ;)
1. Easter-egg logos: Saw the Duck Tales episode. Like lookup levity featuring Dax Brown mascot.
2. Google's Duck.com: Predatory! Fowl! Surprised they gave it to you! But it should be for ducks!
3. Banned in China: Like predatory corporate practices, political controls over free speech a given!
4. FBI at your front door: "-Yegg-, I have a feeling we're not [just] in -Paoli- anymore!"
5. Google/Chrome monopoly: DuckDuckGo needs a "1984" Big Brother Bustin' commercial!
6. Android especially hard default browser change: Wait! Not that hard, nor a significant factor!
7. DDG unique AI approach: Choice & privacy amazing! But innovation & opportunities abound!
8. DuckDuckGo subscription: I have it but would like more insights into AI specific bennies.
9. DuckDuckGo team of 300 across 30 countries and a great culture: Show more in Duck Tales!
10. DDG privacy advocate & transparent donor/investor: Puttin' time/money where your quack is!
This is very cool, Gabriel. I’m often disappointed with what I managed to get done in any given week, but then I make a list of what I got done over the past year, or multiple years, and it’s a different feeling. I hope this felt good to put in writing.
For feature/writing requests, I often wonder is there is a browser-layer solution to improving my algorithmic feeds. I’m sure there is a version of Instagram and X that I would enjoy … I just don’t see it in the app or on my browser. I know there were some old attempts to develop browser extensions to tweak filtering, but they were always clunky and slow. With AI, seems like there are new opportunities to offer users more control while increasing privacy.
Thanks -- and duly noted. It's something we've thought about a bit on a longer list of other ideas, but haven't done too much on yet. The closest thing we have in our browsers is Duck Player, which shows you YouTube videos without as much tracking, and without influencing or showing you additional recommendations.
I’ve always been big on privacy and security, and this article is so good. I studied cryptography for two years, which pushed me deeper into caring about how privacy-first systems are built and why they matter. DuckDuckGo’s approach to protecting users has always stood out to me, and honestly, I’d genuinely love to work with DuckDuckGo someday and contribute to that mission.
Thank you so much.
Regarding #4, I seem to recall reading at one time that you used Bing's technology in some fashion - was that hearsay as well, or was there some truth to it?
We have a variety of search content partners, Bing being the biggest and providing a lot of the traditional web links. Other examples include Apple for maps, Trip Advisor for hotels, and Sports Radar for sports scores. Per our privacy policy, we never share any personal information with any of our partners that could lead to the creation of search histories. We partner simply to get high-quality search results, which is what people expect mainly switching to us from Google. If we don't have them, then they'll switch back.
Over time, as our in-house technology has developed further, more and more of the content page is being generated by us, and the layouts generally look very different in any case, even if certain content is similar. That said, there is some content that I can't see us ever fully generating. For example, maps are driven by literal satellites in the sky; I don't see us putting up our own satellites. I also don't see us going to sports games and collecting our own stats. For web links, as the U.S. v Google made clear, it generally costs upwards of one billion dollars a year to maintain a full web-scale index, which is money we don't have. AI holds promise to make that significnatly cheaper, and we're seeing how much cheaper right now.