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You completely miss the point people using Duck Duck go can use g!

You completely miss the point people using Duck Duck go can use g! and do a Google search. https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html More importantly Duck Duck Go is actually considered worse than Google even by many people that use Duck Duck Go so this is considered a significant feature. Granted, it's debatable how much worse but Bing / Duck Duck go are viewed as competitive search engines not better search engines. Plenty of people are doing regular head to head comparisons with people using different search engines for the same query if they can't find it on one they use the other. After a while the 'better' engine generally becomes their dealt. Windows on the other hand has a lot of inertia due to third part integration. For example there is a much smaller selection of games on OS X than windows which creates a feedback loop. There is no way OS X could hit 50% market share in 3 years let alone a brand new OS starting from scratch, but search has seen massive swings in market share fairly recently. PS: The g! feature is also great for fine tuning their search engine. Providing a listing of every pain point when people gave up.

Posted by Retric on Apr 20, 2015, 12:44 AM

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You completely miss the point people using Duck Duck go can use g!

RetricApr 20, 2015, 12:44 AM

You completely miss the point people using Duck Duck go can use g! and do a Google search. https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html More importantly Duck Duck Go is actually considered worse than Google even by many people that use Duck Duck Go so this is considered a significant feature. Granted, it's debatable how much worse but Bing / Duck Duck go are viewed as competitive search engines not better search engines. Plenty of people are doing regular head to head comparisons with people using different search engines for the same query if they can't find it on one they use the other. After a while the 'better' engine generally becomes their dealt. Windows on the other hand has a lot of inertia due to third part integration. For example there is a much smaller selection of games on OS X than windows which creates a feedback loop. There is no way OS X could hit 50% market share in 3 years let alone a brand new OS starting from scratch, but search has seen massive swings in market share fairly recently. PS: The g! feature is also great for fine tuning their search engine. Providing a listing of every pain point when people gave up.

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