New Search Engine Duck Duck Go
Posted by Celia Walter | 29 Apr, 2009
The wonderful people at Pandia alerted me to Duck Duck Go
which is a new search engine that's trying to provide better results
with less spam. It has a nice simple Google like interface, which is as
minimal as you can get. Depending on the search query, Duck Duck Go (I
have no idea why it's called that by the way) either provides a small
factual box with information (which unfortunately it takes from
Wikipedia; disappointing), asks for clarification (Duck Duck Go knows
Apple can mean different things. Which meaning?) or displays a series
of results, though quite limited. Any serious searcher is going to
continually be clicking on the 'more links' option.
There is a
nice shortcut icon bar to the right which allows searchers to copy
their search directly across to YouTube, Twitter, IMDB, Amazon and so
on. Nice touch.
I'd like to see this engine doing a lot more
however. No help options! No RSS feeds, no indication of any options to
allow users to search across news, images, blogs and so on, without
leaving the site. While I was happy with the search engine it didn't
hugely inspire me to be honest, and while a spam free search engine is
great, I generally do find Google works pretty well for me in that
area, and I'm still to be convinced about DDG. One to bookmark and
revisit in 6 months or so I think. From Phil Bradley's weblog