[moultano]

I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try. More competition isn't just good for consumers, it's also good for the field of IR.

I work in search quality at Google, and it's really exciting for me to see a result that another search engine returns that I don't understand. It inspires me to think of all the ways they might have returned it, and leads to a lot of neat ideas. For the same reason, I enjoy reading the reaction in the SEO community to major changes to Google's rankings. Sometimes we're too close to a change to see what it does effectively instead of in principle. What the SEOs conclude often ends up being a really good first-order approximation of an unintended side-effect.

If you believe that your competitors are doing incredible things, it's a great inspiration to try doing incredible things yourself, regardless of whether you're right about what they're doing.

[prakash]

I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try.

Give DuckDuckGo a try for a couple of weeks, you probably won't go back to whichever search engine you are using currently :-)

[jerguismi]

It doesn't work very well in Finland. I guess I'll be using google for a while, since internationalization usually isn't much of a concern for smaller startups.

[moultano]

I find that for most queries on duckduckgo the results are identical to bing's (which it is based on).