[excuse-me]

The better abstracts is the reason I use DuckDuckGo at home.

If I just want to know when the next episode of Big Bang Theory is out or what the weather is today I rarely need to even click on a result. For more obscure technical searches at work, Google still finds more answers.

But remember - the barrier to change for a search engine's customers is very very low

[nicholassmith]

With the new DuckDuckHack project as well it does make it a lot easier for very quick 'cheap' results. More complex queries I do seem to find myself !g'ing them. Getting better though, improved over the last 3 months I've been using it.

[rkudeshi]

What search query tells you about the next scheduled episode of a TV show?

[jaryd]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+Big+Bang+Theory

[rkudeshi]

Well, color me amazed. I always just went to Wikipedia's "List of <name> episodes" page, but this will save me a lot of time. Thanks!

[lifeisstillgood]

Weird - I was totally blind to the top box - I ignored it because it was too banner like and kept scanning the results.

Note to DDG - put the cool useful bit Under the place we all expect ads to be.

[poub]

I miss very often the top box too. I have learned the relevancy of this top box, but I still miss it very often. My eyes usually go right to the link with "Official site" tag. I've heard the effect is called banner blindness.

However I use adblock on every browser. Therefore I have less training than others to ignore ads. When I see one, it just hit me stronger (it's a side effect of adblock).

[thrownaway2424]

Pretty depressing. At least on Google there is a top-10 result for the actual big bang theory, instead of irrelevant pop culture garbage.

[wmf]

I think most people refer to the beginning of the universe simply as the "big bang", which produces the results you'd expect.

(Whatever you do, don't search for The Postal Service.)