DuckDuckGo vs Google

Traffic Comparison

About 5% of my new visitors come from Google. About 15% of my new visitors come from DuckDuckGo. For whatever niche that I am filling, the Ducky option is filling spots quicker. Unfortunately these users from DDG seem to be more privacy conscious and have AdBlockers installed more often. So, unless there comes another way to monetize this traffic, Google and DDG are about equal from my view in ability to monetize traffic.

Quality Comparison

Previously trying the DDG search, I had found it initially very sparse and mostly just serving up Wikipedia pages without any broader index to bring in the larger web. I see this as mostly a financial consideration, seeing as how expensive it can be to maintain a large index. Now the search results are very similar with the exception of so fewer Ads results on DDG.

Ethical Comparison

Many people, and largely my cohort, prefer DuckDuckGo due to its respect for privacy. Personally this is not as much a concern for me against other considerations. However, I do see how this can become a deciding factor when the practical concerns are so similar. What do I care for Google making billions of dollars by selling my data unless I get some benefit from it. Play nicer or go home.

Andrew Johnson

Open Source:

• Github

Other Platforms

• Medium

Published Books:

• Hands on Functional Programming in Rust
• LSTS Tutorial

Books that I am reading:

• E's
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Categories for the Working Mathematician

Top Referrers:

1. Google Search
2. DuckDuckGo Search
3. Sogou Search
4. Bing Search
5. Baidu Search

Tools:

• Perplexity 😵 Modelling Language
• A Categorical view of Typed Lambda Calculus with flexible Soundness Guarantees
• JLPT Flash Cards

Weblog:

• Rust Procedural Macro Spans Quirks Mode and Hygiene
• Tokenizing and Stemming Natural Language in Rust
• Text to Speech Software in Rust
• Generating an Atom Feed for a site written in RDXL
• Navigating the Rust RFC Process and Agile Development
• Interfacing C Variadic Functions in Rust
• Rust Zeroize to Protect Hot Secrets
• A Short List of Rust Libraries that I Recommend
• Complex Pattern Guards in Rust
• Generating Lots of Misspelled Words for NLP Testing
• Dependency Grammar vs Constituency Grammars
• Using rust-bert to Summarize Blog Posts
• Rust, typed: traits and trait objects
• Rust, shared: by copy
• Rust, abstracted: lambda dropping
• Writing a book using RDXL
• Parallel Asset Loading for Game Load Screens in Rust