3.5 billion queries for google daily, 54 mil daily record for DDG.
That means that google achieves the daily record for DDG for slightly more than 14 minutes.
It is incredibly hard / nearly impossible to compete against a tech monopoly in its core business grounds. I would like to switch to DDG, but for me the google results are definitely more relevant than the DDG results.
I wish it was otherwise.
I don't think the comparison against google is all that interesting because it is such an extreme outlier. How about comparing against the second most popular search engine?
Why would that be interesting, they have no market share?
Bing has less than 3%, it operates at a loss. Not even MS cares about it and they just keep it around as a part of the technological suite that they have in order to convince the government that they are not a tech monopoly, even though everyone know they are. All big guys do this trick in one way or another.
For that reason I don't think one should compare DDG with anyone but google.
Option 1: No other search engine besides google is even worth discussing. Discussion over, have a nice day. Boring.
Option 2: Out of all the search engines competing with google, how is ddg positioned? Why is bing only 5 times its size considering it has MS's might behind it? How important is Baidu?
Option 2 undoubtedly makes for more interesting discussion. Also, if Bing is only a distraction/hobby for MS, then alternative options become even more important.
