Duck Duck Go

Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine
The search engine market is obviously dominated by a small number of big players, but that doesn't mean that small companies with interesting ideas can't still get at least a small slice of this market. One of these services is Duck Duck Go, which has a rather silly name, but turns out to be a pretty interesting search engine. Duck Duck Go aims to get its users to their desired destinations in as few clicks as possible. Instead of long lists of results, Duck Duck Go simply tries to return the most relevant links about a given topic.

Features
Whenever you do a search on Duck Duck Go, the service will try to bring up the most 'official' page first, and if the search terms has a Wikipedia page, it will also include a short blurb from Wikipedia, as well as related search terms in a box at the top of the page...

Black Duck Reckons Open Source Popularity Helped Its Q1 Growth
Black Duck Software has announced that it has registered 42 percent growth in bookings performance and 27 percent growth in services for the first quarter of 2009, and owes its success to the growing trends of Open Source Software (OSS) acceptance and usage.
The down economy is forcing companies to look at new ways to cut costs so that profit margins are sustained or, at the bare minimum, exist. One globally accepted cost cutting method is the adoption of OSS and this has led to Black Duck procuring significant business with three global enterprises and signing deals with existing and 18 new clients to take its customer base to 640....


How to block 44 million spam domains
A Firefox from the new search engine Duck Duck Go is now out of beta. It blocks 44 million spam domains, 28% of which are found in Google.

In my interview with Gabriel Weinberg, Duck Duck Go’s Founder and CEO, a couple of weeks ago, he explained how his brand new search engine has partnered with The Parked Domains Project. That project regularly crawls the Web and marks spam and parked domains. It is now marking 44 million pages, which depending on how you count, is approximately between 30-40% of the whole Internet.

How it works

The Duck Duck Go Toolbar uses the same data to prevent users from going to 44 million spam or parked domains. In other search engines, these domains often come up in search results and by slightly mistyping Web addresses.

Here is an example: If you have the toolbar installed and by mistake you type in yotube.com in stead of youtube.com, it will alert you of the mistake and ask “Did you mean youtube.com?” After a few seconds, it will then automatically redirect you to the suggested site....

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