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How HN took it
20 positive, 90 neutral or asking, 15 mixed, 193 critical, out of 318 comments about the project. Thread score -0.50.
Design: 6 for, 91 againstExecution: 6 for, 21 againstIdea: 4 for, 23 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 25 againstPricing: 0 for, 6 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Developer-focused apps like StackOverflow, MDN and json checkers are useful
From 1 comment
Great question: We are first ranking apps and then within apps we have some of our own ranking but e.g. web results come from Bing. We have found that when non-web-result-apps…
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Objections
Browser extension required to set default search engine felt intrusive
From 3 comments
That's a Chrome setting. We dont change anything in your profile. I guess folks here have a lot of reasonable doubts about extensions. I get it. I hate them also because many…
richardsocher on HNI found your pitch really interesting, I'd love to try it. I, however, refuse to install an extension and change my default search engine just to be allowed to type in a search…
ulber on HNyea.. why? the truth is that most users have no other easily accessible way for them to switch away from a monopoly that sells them, their data and privacy to the highest bidder…
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Search results layout is busy and hard to navigate
From 1 comment
Yea. We debated this one for a while. There's a "regression to the mean" type of thing going on where every other search engine in the last 20 years just looks like a Google…
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Bad image result slipped through SafeSearch
From 1 comment
Oh shit! That's bad. That picture seems to have gotten through all the SafeSearch:strict filters. Sadly, the image search app comes from Bing, so every other non-Google search…
richardsocher on HN
Requests
Open source the browser extension
From 2 comments
that's a chrome setting. our extension has zero influence on your chrome profiles. we'll open source it soon so you can verify :)
richardsocher on HNNot all extensions are the same. I understand healthy skepticism since there are a ton of sketchy extensions out there. We will open source it in the next few hours since 80% of…
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Support mobile platforms
From 1 comment
Yea, we'll definitely support more platforms, including mobile soon. It's on the roadmap :)
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Questions
Is the extension safe and what permissions does it need
From 2 comments
That's a Chrome setting. We dont change anything in your profile. I guess folks here have a lot of reasonable doubts about extensions. I get it. I hate them also because many…
richardsocher on HNHey. Thanks. We got lots of love in other places like Twitter, LinkedIn, ProductHunt, Facebook and others. So that made the launch an overall big success :) The only purpose of…
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How does the privacy mode work
From 1 comment
Right. Have you tried the private mode (top right dropdown)? Like DDG we proxy everything in that mode. It's a bit slower so we haven't done it in default mode yet.
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Alternatives named
Google
From 1 comment
yea.. why? the truth is that most users have no other easily accessible way for them to switch away from a monopoly that sells them, their data and privacy to the highest bidder…
richardsocher on HN
DuckDuckGo
From 2 comments
yes, you can just go into incognito mode. we care a lot about privacy so we didn't want to mess with that. it should just work when you're in incognito mode. if you then also go…
richardsocher on HNOh shit! That's bad. That picture seems to have gotten through all the SafeSearch:strict filters. Sadly, the image search app comes from Bing, so every other non-Google search…
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Bing
From 1 comment
Great question: We are first ranking apps and then within apps we have some of our own ranking but e.g. web results come from Bing. We have found that when non-web-result-apps…
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