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I actually think their name is one of the strongest things going for them...and Google being more than a search engine to be the very reason Bing is gaining market share and brands like DDG actually have a shot at competing.

Regarding the name...it is unique and very MEMORABLE (repetition is one of the four mental glues.) It has just as few syllables as Microsoft, and is super easy to pronounce... From a branding perspective they are taking a very strong positioning play of being the Search Engine that respects privacy. Smart strategy if you ask me... to position themselves opposite the dominant brand with a hot button differentiation.

Regarding the trust factor, and the being locked in to google, those are actually both weaknesses of Google. The locked in issue is part and parcel with the privacy issue, which is the market DDG is trying to penetrate. Regarding Trust, I don't see why I need to trust a search engine to use it. In fact, the privacy thing again is the very reason I DON'T Trust Google...

People Use Google because Google focused on Search when all other search engines tried to be so much more. Once Google won the category (where people say, "Just Google It." They assumed they owned the market and started betting on the future convergence of search and social, etc... I actually think in 5 years from now, Google won't be the dominant player in search, although I do think Android will become a bigger money maker for them...

DuckDuckGo is doing a fine job with their name and brand strategy...up until this article and complaint which undermines their focused strategy. By complaining about Google, they appear to be in the game of competing as an equal search engine, not a DIFFERENT search experience, which is the play they need to make to win.
It's the reason Burger King can't take over McDonalds...because they just claim to be better, not different.
Pepsi on the other hand claims to be for the New Generation, Different than Coke which is classic, and the real thing. Just like Listerine has the brand of being more powerful than scope because they used the slogan,"The Taste You Hate Twice a Day." They said we are different, not better.

Human perception is near impossible to change... Complaining about monopolies is like saying, "we are better but they wont let us play."

If DDG wants to win, they need to pound hard about how they are different, and if they insist on complaining about Google, it should be consistent with their brand strategy and focus on how Google is more than search, and DDG is for when you just want to find what you are looking for with true privacy.
>Why does everyone say this?

Because the most popular theories about 9/11 conspiracies are never as simple as you outlined. I think a small group did plan and carry out the attack, and a part of the US government is just as capable of doing that as Al-Qaeda.

But once you start adding extra details (the buildings had explosives, the pentagon got hit by a missile, etc), the number of people you need "in on it" starts to climb. That is why so many people point out the huge headcount of the supposed conspirators.
I don't think he is making any such claim. Like I mentioned elsewhere, if you follow his full explanation, it is Google that is actually capitalising on this confusion and redirecting users to their own engine.
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Ask HN please some niche software ecosystems for income 
As single developer im trying to find good niche software ecosystems for side income,not flooded like the cell app stores or word press.
something like :
unity3d ecosystems , SAP ecosystems
do you have more examples ?
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You, the HN reader, are not the target of this. Of course it ticks you (and me) off the wrong way - but your reaction is likely an unintended consequence!

It's excellent PR because it creates a coherent David Vs Goliath narrative that journos will buy and so will the bulk of the non-technical populace. A few more variations of this in different publications, and you'll see that it might seep into the public consciousness.
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By this reasoning, programmers and software developers are an edge case minority. Yes, they are only a small chunk of the people who buy computers, but they have tremendous influence over the future direction of the field.

Which is to say, paying attention to the mass of office workers does not tell you something about the direction of the software world, it tells you about what dogfood is being forced onto the workers at this moment in time.
Well, but then your problem is religion, not coding standards. And then it'll be over this or that design pattern, coding paradigm, version control commit logs....

If you name the problem "coding standards" and it's "religion", you'll solve the wrong problem and of course it won't work.
Gabriel, have you considered rebranding DuckDuckGo? If the name is affecting user adoption or perception, it can be changed.
I semi-seriously think then someone got the idea for the 'solution' from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cRyd4LpJo
You have those the wrong way around.
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Disclaimer: I have not read the lean-startup book. I have read the summary of lean-startup methodology.

Considering from my experience with lean methods in general (think Toyota Way), I'd like to share what I think is the best book on Lean in software I have encountered so far: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Software-Strategies-Techniques-....

There are many lessons to be learned from other industries, startups can also learn from projects done in big corporations. There are techniques to obtain what Paul describes as "MVP" - for example Analytic Hierarchy Process. It is a great tool for prioritizing values and requirements coming from many, often conflicting sources. By the way, the book I mention shows practical examples on how to use it in software.
What I am a bit worried about is that the lean-startup may be hiding the Lean complexities by forgetting about some of the Lean principles (value, value stream, flow, pull, perfection). They are all very important, choosing one of them (value) over others (flow for instance) is not going to create a truly lean company in the long run.
> You were the one who made a wildly unsubstantiated claim that the common man's attitude about science has more effect on the human race than the insights of actual scientists.

"Wildly unsubstantiated"? Do you go outdoors much? It is a fact on the ground -- a dramatic reduction in religious persecution, indeed of religion altogether, a decline in the acceptance of superstitious beliefs, an increase in intellectual freedom demanded by the common man, and a thousand other examples. And the assumption that an idea with no supporting evidence is assumed to be false, by itself the most important evidence for public acceptance of the scientific outlook.

The true revolution in science is not the existence of scientific specialists (as important as that is), it is the fact that the public is willing to pay for the science, because they know it works, both as public policy and as an intellectual model for everyman.

Science is not about "actual scientists" as you put it. Science is about reality testing instead of blind belief. That's what distinguishes modern times from 500 years ago, a time when superstition ruled. Science cannot survive without public support, and public support requires public comprehension. The existence of working scientists is an effect, not a cause.

Look, I'm not going to bring you up to date on the last 500 years of human history, you're responsible for your own ignorance. Solve the problem st its source -- start now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science

> What's clear is that you haven't actually provided enough evidence to support your claim

It's not my claim, as you would know if you knew anything at all.
Agree with everything you say, except ". By complaining about Google, they appear to be in the game of competing as an equal search engine,"

The nature of his exact complaint is that Google is capitalising on people's confusion with the name "Duck something", and then proceeding to capitalise on this confusion (in a somewhat sneaky way) by redirecting "potential DDG users" back to their own page.

>> they need to pound hard about how they are different

And this point is very difficult to achieve if the "market leader" is (sort of) preventing people from accessing you in the first place.
Thanks for your input. ReportMill sounds particularly interesting.
I just visited duckduckgo.com again (though full of hesitation) and as a designer I can tell you:

1) Their design is very complex and un-appealing with no simplicity that a SE should posses (For Eg. Google, Bing have a very simple design). They don't design Search engines to be simple because they like it that way, because they have invested a huge amount of money in researching about which colors and patterns work best. For example, DDG uses a red menu-bar on the top which tells me they haven't done as much research. I keep repeating this, but hopefully enough people will realize this:

DO NOT over-use red. Red is used to denote only important elements on a website (like a sign-up button), a call-to-action element (For example, compose button on Gmail). Look at DDG, they have a whole top-bar in full red.

2) As a general user, there is no difference between DDG and Google in my eyes because both have a sponsored link at the top. Both try to benefit from my searches, so I see no perceivable difference between Google and DDG. Now, I already know Google has a superior Search algorithm, period (from what I perceive). So, there is not a single reason for me as an end-user to use DDG over Google.

And one more - Look at the irony, even you reference them by DDG and not DuckDuckGo, whereas you reference Google by just Google and not by any other short form. This is exactly what I meant. Brand Naming is something that we don't even pay attention to, but plays a much much important role.
To be honest, Chrome is multi-process while Firefox is single-process.
The confusion (if it really exists) has nothing to do with Google. It has to do with DDG not protecting their turf. When they chose their name, they could have chosen thousands of others. This isn't and shouldn't be Google's problem and quite frankly comes off as a weakness that DDG ran with this story.
Interesting. Are there any that are the other way around - dangerous when eaten, but not when inhaled?

I'd imagine it'd have to do with the digestive ecosystem, if there were any that worked that way.
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Switching search engines is ridiculously easy. There aren't many things related to tech so easy; no sign up, no user names or passwords necessary, no network effects required, no need to share your FB or Twitter account. Just go, type, and search.

Firefox managed to severely dent IE in a similar default situation, despite needing to be downloaded and installed, which is a huge effort wall compared to using a search engine. Ditto for Chrome.

If you build a superior engine I have no doubt users will type the address in manually or bookmark it or even go through the couple clicks it takes to switch defaults.
Me, the HN reader, is who DDG markets to. They try to sell themselves as the search engine for the informed user - the people who care about privacy and understand how google tracks you. The "bulk of the non-technical populace" will see an article about search engines and skip over it. They will never in their lifetime change any setting on their computer away from the default.
Whether Google did this or not is hardly the point. The point is that DDG can never win if they lump themselves into the same category as Google. The confusion they complain about, and monopoly is DDG claiming we are the same as Google. This is the not the play that will win them the west.
I work in the subsea industry and when our ship has planned downtime we're allowed to go do marine research, basically just looking at the marine life that grows on and around structures at >1000m. So it does happen. Just on a very small scale!
The reason that everyone is so incredulous at the shut down is because so few details were given about what they tried. I'd be really interested to know what they tried e.g. different kernels, different OS's.
This is going to sound crazy, but I was running 64bit nightly (on windows 8) and didnt have a single problem until I read this article... Immediately after following some of the links to the discussions on google groups, firefox crashed twice, and then also prompted me to update again...

Anyone know how to tell if if the version of firefox has been force-updated to 32bit (the about dialog does not seem to indicate which platform I am using).

Also, I don't have any plugins installed. The only plugin I used before I upgraded to windows 8 was flash, and now that HTML5 video is pretty main-stream, and WebGL is on its way, I don't see myself ever installing flash plugin again...
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If you have accurate stats for programmers/developers showing their desktop choice, by all means.

I would bet on Windows being well over 90% still. Remember Microsoft sells worldwide, not just to silicon valley. How many programmers in China do you think use Macs?
I think this is a good article, for people like me anyway. There are loads of people on HN wiling to throw their life at an idea for a period of time. Then there are people who are embedded in corporate but 'startup-curious' but for whatever reason are not going to quit the job and head in all guns blazing.

A side hustle is a great way to give yourself a bit of freedom, understand what your getting into with a startup and make some early steps. And with time management it is not that hard. Something else I have done I would recommend is I have set up a bank account where X% of my salary goes into a separate account. This account is for investing in my business. This way I have a clear budget to spend and don't get cold feet at the thought of digging into my family savings account.
Well, OS X is easier because much of the work has already been done for Linux 64, as both are posix-ish lp64 architectures. Whereas Windows is llp64 plus its own APIs and ABIs, which means much more unique porting issues.

Beyond that, there's all the infrastructure you need to stand up for development, continuous integration, QA, metrics, and shipping to hundreds of millions of users. The logistics of that part are almost the same as supporting an entirely new OS, and in the case of Windows it's one with an insanely large and diverse population. So yeah, that parts actually a lot worse just because of the sheer numbers.
Frankly all this cry baby entitlement mentality lowers DDG in their users eyes. It makes one wonder if they are just another mouth piece for Microsoft (like Fair search camp).
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If you stick to integer math with 64-bit floating point numbers, then everything actually works out pretty reasonably, since all 32-bit ints can be represented exactly as 64-bit floats (doubles). As long as you use floor/ceil/round where appropriate, you get most of the benefits of integer arithmetic, without the type checking (which you lose in a dynamic language anyways).

Some people feel strongly against this, but for dynamically typed language I enjoy its simplicity (for static languages, type systems are meant to enforce constraints on types, so multiple number types can be useful). It has done well in [at least] javascript and lua, and while the former is anything but an example in how to design a programming language, IMHO, the latter may be.

So no, it wouldn't be a bad idea to make all numbers 64-bit floats. It sounds like you might likely be compiling to javascript, in which case using 64-bit floats will mean you have one less problem to deal with while implementing it.
This wired article _seems_ to explain it:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/wireless-explainer/2/
First of all, thank you very much for the detailed reply.
I was thinking about something general, i.e. for an intro slide in a presentation where people can look at and have an immediate visualization of the main feature of an inverse problem, in particular the fact that it is inverse and hence related to a path going from data to model.
Anyway I appreciated your exaustive examples.
Thank you again.
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And a UAE national has to own part of your company in order for you to start one...
I have no access to the internal budgets of Microsoft so I can't really comment intelligently. I am a cross-platform smartphone developer so I use wp7, wp8 as well as Google APIs daily in order to do my work and bing doesn't seem so bad for consumer oriented searches. YMMV. For the queries I execute, I agree their results are subpar.

But I feel compelled to respond. If there is no alternative to Google for something as important as indexing the output of human knowledge production... we are in serious trouble. The library of Alexandria burned and we still have no idea why [0].

Google is interested in one thing, getting you to look at ads. In their defense, well-targeted ads (++efficiency!). However when given the opportunity they have exploited their leadership position for every commercial advantage and recently to the detriment of search (e.g., I do not care to see what a bunch of "thought leaders" in google+ have to say on the topic I'm searching for). Their support for "Do Not Track" is grudging at best. [1]

Their business model is approaching that of a virus infecting a host. They enter an external market and utilize their near monopoly in web search/advertising to drive the value proposition for competitors to near-zero. And that gives me pause. It is like Starbucks opening in every local branch of your public library.

So, I support DDG and I give them feedback on my own time in the hopes they aren't also inherently out to screw me in the end. Also because I do believe (and this is an assumption on my part) that a "cosmic" -- well that may be an overreach -- law is involved. Search is not a natural monopoly [2].

[0] http://www.economicshelp.org/dictionary/n/natural-monopoly.h...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#Do_Not_Trac...
[2] http://www.economicshelp.org/dictionary/n/natural-monopoly.h...
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Well, Ubuntu's unwavering pragmatism in getting GNU/Linux on the desk- and laptops of reasonably regular people has had a big impact.

But being right (even very right) in the 80s and 90s doesn't make you automatically right forever after; I found his assertion that you should starve rather than write or run a single line of unfree code[1] to be wrong and very counterproductive to spreading free and open source software.

1: http://lunduke.com/?p=2273
It doesn't actually work properly from our preliminary testing which causes us a number of problems thanks to some legacy ActiveX crap we've been trying to kill for years.
> 1984 - extremes of medication

The only medication I remember from Nineteen Eighty-Four was Liberty Gin. I think you're thinking of Brave New World with soma.
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So I haven't seen big Orgs switching to Libre/OpenOffice - since they have the resources necessary for whatever licensing and because they get special deals too and because MS Office is a lot better than Libre/OpenOffice, then they have no real reason to switch.

However, the big problem Microsoft faces is that one reason Office is popular is because of piracy, which is like this freakishly big elephant in the room. I can bet that most home users that use Office do not have a license for it - I've seen this happening with small to medium businesses too in my country at least.

And for a small to medium business, what makes more sense? Shelling out the cash for Office licenses or going with a completely free and legal alternative? Considering most such businesses don't actually need Exchange integration or other niceties that MS Office provides, the choice is pretty obvious under the threat of being caught.

And this is the big problem for MS Office - it's an awesome software package, but judging relatively to its upfront cost to home users or small/medium businesses? Well, the extra value provided starts to fade in comparison to a $0 price tag.
They were submitted to launchpad over a year ago. No action was taken by canonical despite extensive debugging information being provided.

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This might be part of the problem

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> Yes, bigger numbers are always better!

Nice strawman. Do you have any actual arguments?
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