{"id":257,"date":"2015-02-10T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2024-05-21T00:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T00:38:25","slug":"duckduckgo-vs-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-vs-google\/","title":{"rendered":"I Tried DuckDuckGo for One Week and Here&#8217;s What I Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"202\" src=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-vs-google.png\" alt=\"duckduckgo vs. google\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-vs-google.png 600w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-vs-google-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As someone who has done a lot of SEO over the years, I can&#8217;t help but to think of how I would design a better search engine than Google. Google is a pretty damn good search engine, but I do find a lot of faults with it:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As time goes on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobook.com\/brands\">big brands still get away with &#8220;murder&#8221;<\/a> in the top result slots.\n<li>Ads are taking over the results pages.\n<li>Search is an insanely important part of having a free society; it&#8217;s scary that it&#8217;s basically a monopoly at this point in time. Not that I think Google is doing anything &#8220;evil&#8221; right now &#8211; it&#8217;s just the thought that everyone uses the same search engine that scares me.\n<\/ul>\n<p>With that said, I figured it was time to use an up and coming search engine as my go-to search engine for a while. And the real key for me to use a search engine 100% of the time &#8211; is to swap out the default search engine that my primary web browser uses.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;I finally got around to it, installed DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine in FireFox and gave it the old &#8220;Pepsi Challenge.&#8221; Here is what I found&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>Pros<\/h2>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>1.  I Love the Lack of Advertisements (For Most Searches)<\/h3>\n<p>I love the lack of ads and the over abundance of white space. It&#8217;s so much nicer on the <i>ojos<\/i>. Greed\/keeping shareholders happy definitely can ruin the search engine experience. Being able to find results quickly is most definitely impeded by too many advertisements and distractions.<\/p>\n<p>Now of course, if you search for a hot ticket item like laptops, you&#8217;ll see some ads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-result-for-laptop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1904\" height=\"1009\" src=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-result-for-laptop.jpg\" alt=\"duckduckgo search result for laptop\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-result-for-laptop.jpg 1904w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-result-for-laptop-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-result-for-laptop-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-result-for-laptop-624x330.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1904px) 100vw, 1904px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>DuckDuckGo Search Result for &#8220;Laptops&#8221; (click on the image to see an enlarged view)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but it&#8217;s nowhere as bad as this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/google-search-results-for-laptops.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/google-search-results-for-laptops.png\" alt=\"Google search results for laptops\" width=\"1195\" height=\"1004\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/google-search-results-for-laptops.png 1195w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/google-search-results-for-laptops-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/google-search-results-for-laptops-1024x860.png 1024w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/google-search-results-for-laptops-624x524.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Google Search Result for &#8220;Laptops&#8221; (click on the image to see an enlarged view)<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>2. I Like How Image and Video Results are Embedded with Search Results<\/h3>\n<p>You may think (based on my previous statement) that this would crowd the search result space. It doesn&#8217;t! They do a great job of presenting the video and image results nicely.<\/p>\n<p>So say you conduct a search like: &#8220;Surfing Mexico&#8221;. You get these nice clean results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-embedded-image-and-video-results.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"1009\" src=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-embedded-image-and-video-results.png\" alt=\"duckduckgo embedded image and video results\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-embedded-image-and-video-results.png 980w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-embedded-image-and-video-results-291x300.png 291w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-embedded-image-and-video-results-624x642.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and when you click on the image or video tab, you get these nicely embedded image \/ video results:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-surf-results.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1009\" src=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-surf-results.png\" alt=\"more Mexico surf results\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-surf-results.png 1920w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-surf-results-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-surf-results-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/more-surf-results-624x327.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The difference between DuckDuckGo and Google here is that Google takes you to a new page to see image and video results.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>Cons<\/h2>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>1. Descriptions of Search Results are Hard to Read<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s the font color and size (and maybe font face choice). The light gray font makes for poor legibility. I know how designers love resorting to a light gray to make clean looking designs, but it fails the usability test. Joseph Putnam wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kissmetrics.com\/7-deadly-web-design-sins\/\">great post<\/a> for the KISSmetrics blog that touches on this issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-results-up-close.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"637\" src=\"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-results-up-close.png\" alt=\"duckduckgo search results up close\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-results-up-close.png 650w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-results-up-close-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/duckduckgo-search-results-up-close-624x611.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the result fonts should be bigger. The results just aren&#8217;t noticeable. <b>That&#8217;s actually a huge thing to making a good search engine<\/b>; legibility and noticeability.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that throws me off are the favicons next to the results. I&#8217;ve been trained to not expect those, so I think they are ads. Perhaps as I use DuckDuckGo more, they&#8217;ll stop bothering me. However, I&#8217;m inclined to say they&#8217;re more of distraction than absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>Maybes<\/h2>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>1. Not Sure I&#8217;m a Fan of Infinite Scrolling<\/h3>\n<p>DuckDuckGo doesn&#8217;t paginate their results like Google does. Instead, you just keep scrolling down to wade through an infinite amount of search results.<\/p>\n<p>At first I wasn&#8217;t a fan of the infinite scrolling&#8230;.it makes it hard to remember where a result is. Now, I&#8217;m not so sure it bothers me. I think&#8230;I like the fact on paginated results you can kind of keep track of where you found a previous result. With infinite scrolling it can make it harder to remember where a previous result is.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>Interesting Findings<\/h2>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>1. DuckDuckGo is Fast Enough &#8211; or Just as Fast<\/h3>\n<p>A lot of people always talk about how Google is really fast. DuckDuckGo is fast enough for me. Seems on par. Or unnoticeable. <\/p>\n<p>I would go as far as to say that your search result speeds are mostly dictated by the machine \/ browser you are using.<\/p>\n<h3>2. I Find Myself Double-Checking Results Using Google<\/h3>\n<p>I find myself double-checking Google results, but usually, it&#8217;s not because the Google results are better. I&#8217;m assuming that Google might have better results. Rarely is it the case.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>Weirdness \/ Sketchy Conspiracy Stuff<\/h2>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While I was writing this post, my browser search mysteriously switched back to Google. Perhaps, I made some unintentional keystrokes that reset my default search engine. But, it feels really suspicious. <\/p>\n<h2>Where You Can Download DuckDuckGo To Give it the Same Shot:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/duckduckgo-for-chrome\/bpphkkgodbfncbcpgopijlfakfgmclao\">The Chrome Extension<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/duckduckgo-for-firefox\/\">The FireFox Plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iegallery.com\/Addons\/Details\/16000\">The Ad-on for Internet Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/duck.co\/help\/desktop\/safari\">The Extension For Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.opera.com\/en\/extensions\/details\/duckduckgo-for-opera-2\/\">The Extension For Opera<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe data-w-type=\"embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/s4ko6.mjt.lu\/wgt\/s4ko6\/x3s7\/form?c=ae480370\" width=\"100%\" style=\"height: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" 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