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I wish DuckDuckGo would change their name and branding. I can't take anything they do seriously.

They've made a ton of improvements since the last time I tried them - I'm using them permanently now to get away from Google and it's great. Would recommend giving it a try.

My only 2 complaints are:

1) I make a search and want to see news (or whatever) but they don't show the news link - they only display it based on some algorithm that is wrong all the time.

2) No maps - Google is still the leader here. Would be great to see some sort of integration between duckduckgo and openstreetmap

For 1 -- try adding "news" to the query. That should almost always trigger our News Instant Answer

For 2 -- We actually have maps powered by openstreetmap: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=20+paoli+pike+paoli&ia=maps

Also check out the directions feature we recently integrated to maps so you can hop to another service if you like :)

https://duck.co/blog/post/291/directions

I like their branding. Really like it. More personal, less of a corporate feel. I hope they don't change a thing.

If you don't use any services with ridiculous names, you must be interneting like it's 1999.

Everybody was Yahoo! even then-- still ridiculous. And if you called customer service, somebody yodeled it in your ear. They still might for all I know.

More like 1995. Yahoo! Amazon. Google. AltaVista. HotWired. Dogpile. Excite.

What, the name DuckDuckGo is entirely unlike those serious names Google, Yahoo, and Bing?

To be honest, after years of hearing it, Google kind of sounds serious to me now.

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