![]() ![]() You can search an hex color, get the direct result from stackoverflow, start a timer, and even get info for pressure cooker recipes.Įven though some of these instant answer are somewhat “WebDeveloper-related”, I think there’s potential here. The nice thing about this is that sometimes you’ll be surprised.įrom a developer point of view this is fantastic. It’s hackableĭo you want to extend the functionality of DuckDuckGo?ĭuckDuckHack is the place where you can learn how to extend DuckDuckGo by adding new instant answers. I know google is right in doing this, but since DuckDuckGo is less common, I don’t ever get this issue. It literally break my workflow and frustrated me. When 30 people use google from the same ip, from time to time, a terrible screen will pop-up asking you a captcha. I work in a web agency as a web developer, and guess what? We have a static ip, and we all use google. There were times when I could literally compare the difference between the two and notice how DuckDuckGo search was faster. It’s blazing fast, much faster than Google IMHO.Īlso, the fact that you don’t have redirects in between tracking you helps keeping things faster. I always got an outstanding speed out of it. But given the amount of information that constantly leaks about us I, for once, worried to be the owner of it, even if for a tiny part. Given the fact that Google was invading my life I thought it would be nice to see what did changed.ĭid I choose it for the privacy? Yes, a little bit.Īlthough I’m not the type that worries about privacy too much. I remember a few months ago to look back at my bookmark list and notice the DuckDuckGo bookmark. I tried DuckDuckGo but it was too early and I wasn’t motivated to use it.Īfter a few years, Seth Godin wrote that he uses it, so I decide to try it again, but after 1 month I go back to Google, something wasn’t still quite right. This doesn’t mean that I was on the edge of the new discovery, quite the opposite. I first met DuckDuckGo many years ago when it was less mainstream and privacy was something almost unknown. ![]() Why I started using DuckDuckGo as my search engine Here there are my thoughts about its pros and cons. If you’re here I suppose you already know the DuckDuckGo search engine, it’s a free search engine that doesn’t track you and cares even more about your privacy. ![]()
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