Respect for this guy. I built and sold a social search engine a few years ago and its incredibly hard to get user adoption. We got to about 50k uniques a day and that was as high as it got. I knew I was in for trouble, because even I kept using google though the results from our engine were superior. Its hard to combat that type of brand loyalty/pattern when even the founder of another search engine wants to continue using google.
Thank you the respect. For the record, Duck Duck Go is my default and Google now feels weird to me. But I agree; combating that entrenchment is pretty insane.
I give that guy a couple of year and I think he will be able to compete with Google or Bing. What he's doing is amazing and this search engine is sometimes my default in firefox until I have to search for something really hard to find that only google can find the answer (I tried bing but it's not as efficient as google... yet...)
What are you willing to tell us about your revenue model and profitability?
I have used your search a few times and like it. Just haven't committed it to muscle memory yet ;). Where is the Chrome plugin that uses duckduckgo instead of google? firefox plugin?
For all my tech related queries the answers have been better than Google's. My only problem has been in breaking that mental association of "find an answer" with "type a 'g' ".
