On: Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012

[scrrr]

I was surprised to read an article on DDG in a mainstream (albeit liberal) german newspaper "Die Zeit". It's getting press.

At the same time, I've tried http://www.hotbot.com again (last time I tried it perhaps 10 years ago) and I was quite pleased with the search results. So yes, there definitely is a world outside of Google. And it's working well.

But who else has GMail, Documents, Maps, Cache, Translate.. that's a major advantage for the #1.

[TazeTSchnitzel → scrrr]

Bing.

Microsoft has Hotmail, Skydrive, Bing Maps, Cache, Translate and tons more.

[moondowner → TazeTSchnitzel]

The point was, who else has a good search engine and also offers other services.

I don't recall Bing as a good search engine.

And additionally, there are better services than Hotmail (like Gmail), Skydrive (like Google Docs), etc etc..

[EwanToo → moondowner]

Bing is a very good search engine, pretty much identical to Google for my searches.

[p0ss → EwanToo]

DDG's default search is Bing.

[BCM43 → moondowner]

Serious question: Why would you want your search engine to be run by the same company that runs your email and cloud documents?

[moondowner → BCM43]

To provide better search results?

[lookelsewhere → moondowner]

The answer is, you wouldn't if you're concerned about privacy. DDG delivers decent enough results and part of their philosophy is that they claim not to track users.