Duck It! A New Way to Search

by Gabriel Weinberg, CEO DuckDuckGo

Dear AltSearchEngines,

I’m proud to announce Duck It, a new way to search.

Of course a search is worth a thousand words…

• pneumococcal vaccine
• philly startup hackathons
• homomorphism
• memcached site:news.ycombinator.com

Try it out with your own searches. After you put in your terms, click the ‘Duck It’ button. Then tell us what you think so we can improve!

We added a new Zero-click Info section that clicks on the top links for you (in real time), and then pulls out sentences that apply to your search.

Duck It builds on the core idea of Duck Duck Go that search results improve when you get useful, readable content in addition to links.

With this new section, you can learn about your search topic without clicking. That means for many searches your search should end right away, with zero clicks. For others, it should reduce clicking.

At other search engines results often don’t make sense when read, so you are trained not to read. Instead you engage in “search yo-yo,” the endless clicking back and forth between links.

With Duck It, the results are meant to make sense when read. So you only need to click when you really want to go to that page.

Again, we’d love to hear from you. We expect Duck It to evolve significantly based on your feedback.

Regards,

Gabriel Weinberg

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