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'''Duck Duck Go''' is a new [[search engine]] with a focus on user experience, founded by [[Gabriel Weinberg]].<ref>[http://duckduckgo.com/Gabriel_Weinberg Duck Duck Go (Founder and CEO)]</ref> Duck Duck Go is a general purpose search engine, and the company headquarters is based out of Valley Forge, [[Pennsylvania]]. The company is currently in the process of analyzing, perfecting and experiencing with its current business plan.
==Search Goals==
The primary goal of Duck Duck Go is to give users the information they're looking for faster and with less mental effort. The second goal is to help users find related information they might not otherwise have thought of. Duck Duck Go offers links to related topics, and it also has category pages that group topics with similar concepts.<ref name=pandia>[http://www.pandia.com/sew/1596-duck-duck-go.html New search engne Duck Duck Go has less spam and more content], pandia.com.</ref> It allows users to find a lot of information related to their search topic fast.<ref>CJ. [http://www.scienceforseo.com/search-engines/duck-duck-go/ Duck Duck Go!], ''Science for SEO'', March 2009.</ref>
==Uniqueness==
The Pennsylvania-based search startup boasts "less garbage" than the big search engines, and better at avoiding on dead-end links.<ref name=fast>Chris Dannen. [http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/skip-google-and-try-these-search-engines Skip Google, and Try These Search Engines], ''Fast Company'', April 14, 2009.</ref>
===Search result innovations===
The ''Zero-click Info'' section, following a search term request, clicks on the top links for users, and then pulls out snippet information from the site that apply to the specific search. It's intended to provide users the ability to learn about a search topic without having to click the link.<ref name=pandia/> Other unique features include "Category Pages," and "Disambiguation Pages" in front of search result pages where applicable.
===Spam solution===
Duck Duck Go partnered with [[The Parked Domains Project]], which regularly crawls the [[World Wide Web|Web]] and marks [[spam]] and parked domains; Duck Duck Go omits all domains marked as spam. The search engine also uses human policed sources like [[Wikipedia]] and [[Conservapedia]], placing links from these sources (note not just to them, but from them), above algorithmically generated links. The [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]], Gabriel Weinberg, explained, "We've gone out and found entries in about a hundred other human-powered sites that are policed for spam. We use their APIs and extract the info."<ref name=fast/>
==External Links==
* [http://duckduckgo.com/ Official Site]
* [http://duckduckgo.com/blog/ Duck Duck Blog]
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Google]]
[[Category:Search Engines]]
[[Category:Websites]]
==Search Goals==
The primary goal of Duck Duck Go is to give users the information they're looking for faster and with less mental effort. The second goal is to help users find related information they might not otherwise have thought of. Duck Duck Go offers links to related topics, and it also has category pages that group topics with similar concepts.<ref name=pandia>[http://www.pandia.com/sew/1596-duck-duck-go.html New search engne Duck Duck Go has less spam and more content], pandia.com.</ref> It allows users to find a lot of information related to their search topic fast.<ref>CJ. [http://www.scienceforseo.com/search-engines/duck-duck-go/ Duck Duck Go!], ''Science for SEO'', March 2009.</ref>
==Uniqueness==
The Pennsylvania-based search startup boasts "less garbage" than the big search engines, and better at avoiding on dead-end links.<ref name=fast>Chris Dannen. [http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/skip-google-and-try-these-search-engines Skip Google, and Try These Search Engines], ''Fast Company'', April 14, 2009.</ref>
===Search result innovations===
The ''Zero-click Info'' section, following a search term request, clicks on the top links for users, and then pulls out snippet information from the site that apply to the specific search. It's intended to provide users the ability to learn about a search topic without having to click the link.<ref name=pandia/> Other unique features include "Category Pages," and "Disambiguation Pages" in front of search result pages where applicable.
===Spam solution===
Duck Duck Go partnered with [[The Parked Domains Project]], which regularly crawls the [[World Wide Web|Web]] and marks [[spam]] and parked domains; Duck Duck Go omits all domains marked as spam. The search engine also uses human policed sources like [[Wikipedia]] and [[Conservapedia]], placing links from these sources (note not just to them, but from them), above algorithmically generated links. The [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]], Gabriel Weinberg, explained, "We've gone out and found entries in about a hundred other human-powered sites that are policed for spam. We use their APIs and extract the info."<ref name=fast/>
==External Links==
* [http://duckduckgo.com/ Official Site]
* [http://duckduckgo.com/blog/ Duck Duck Blog]
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Google]]
[[Category:Search Engines]]
[[Category:Websites]]