We're actively working on speeding things up, which is generally much worse outside the US than inside.

I actually really like duckduckgo. That's the sad part. My heart says yes but my mind says "they'll get bought up by another company in a few months and all the enjoyment you got from it will be gone"

That's the thing keeping me with Google (besides Google Docs). Google is not disappearing any time soon. How do we get a commitment from DDG that they're here to stay?

The other issue is one of investment. I've already spent a long time with Google (Docs, Gmail, etc.). There needs to be a quick and easy way to integrate everything else into my DDG account so that everything but the search is powered by Google.

The uncertainty is not how long it's been here, it's how long it will be here.

Been using DDG for quite some time now (2 years or something) and i've never noticed any performance issues. Sure, it might be slower than google, but it has to be below the 1 sec difference mark, and I dont really pay attention to such things. In my opinion both google and DDG respond quick enough to feel responsive. The only thing that is kind of noticable when it comes to speed is DDGs "redirect" (if enabled), but thats a feature, right? ;]

In terms of features, DDG beats google anytime for me. google has this "search as you type"-thingy, sure, but it ended up annoying me more often than it helped. DDGs search results are very reliable (can tell someone to search for a term and "3rd or 4th link is what will help you" - try the same with google), the !bangs save a huge ammount of time and effort setting up keywords/shortcuts for different search types and the customization options can be very helpful to adjust it to your liking or workflow. There are these very seldom times when I feel like google returns more results (mostly when looking up some random error messages coming from some rare soft/hardware), but thats what !g/!b and "Try google/bing"-links are for. Other than that, I like the approach, the attitude and the changes very much so far. And if that didnt help - I'm a perl programmer myself. Not supporting a project written in perl would be like rooting for the enemy team when you home team plays against them in finals ;]

@rocky1138:

Regarding the uncertainty about DDG staying here.. Who can prevent DDG from being sold or slowly dying off like a few others did? Well, I believe I can. And so can you. As any technology, any product, any solution, search engines only "live" and "exist" as long as people use them. You manage to build up a solid "customer base" and keep them happy and content = you survive against the competition. And I think DDG is on the best way to accomplishing that. And as far as being "taken over/bought out" goes.. Sure, there is no guarantee that some day someone with a big pile of cash wont make that very tempting offer that the guys behind DDG wont be able to refuse, but so far it hasnt happened. And once again WE (the users) can help. How? Use the darn thing. Dont turn off the ads (and dont have ad-blockers on for DDG itself) and/or use Flattr. As long as the people paying the costs for all the background stuff (hosting/traffic/time invetment) can do that without having to spend their own cash, DDG will most likely stay the way it is.
Not using DDG simply because you're "affraid that it might be gone one day" is like throwing your laptop out of the window today, because it will be just an ugly paperweight in 2 years.

I'm not quite sure why you cant use GMail + GDocs AND DDG at the same time. Either your workflow is totally different from mine or I'm missing something. But I always saw all of those as separate websites, which are in separate tabs and which can be simply switched beween as required.

thanks for your concern; we actually have been playing around with this internally and are making sure we won't have to sacrifice speed.  something like the following should be deployed soon:

This is rolling out right now.  Please please please let us know your feedback regarding speed.

It´s has good speed but it is poor in results

I don't like not being able to block search results. ChaCha is killing me.

WOT rating is a joke. Here is a good article why.

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/new/2011/03/18/wot-needs-to-control-its-community/

1. Typing the exclaimation point is cumbersome. I'd rather use something that only requires a single keypress such as a backslash (\) or grave (`).
2. I have to type a space before the exclaimation point when it's at the end of the search string. I'd much rather type "cats!gi" than "cats !gi" if the bang syntax is at the end. It's a small thing, but it would save me typing and aggravation. That, and it bites me every single time when I'm searching.

I also wish !cpan would search CPAN, not MetaCPAN. Use !mcpan or something for those who want to use the latter. I prefer the former.

I'm new here. I'll see if I like or not later on.

Replying to the SSL test of Guest, if you go back and check it now. DDG is rated A(88) now,

Zero-click info is the information that appears above any organic links or the sponsored link, giving you instant-answers to many types of queries. 

I'm confused here.  You'd like us to do query alterations?  The did you mean is there to allow you to get results on what you actually searched for.  We could easily re-query with the suggestion and make it transparent like Google does but specifically don't at this point.

I think what Guest means is that Google is smart enough to know what you're trying to search for, given a non-exact/mispelled query.