DuckDuckGo vs Goliath - An interview wth Gabriel Weinberg [audio]

Gabriel, I just want to say you can't buy PR like this.

The hacker news crowd loves you (deservedly so!) and you are doing an awesome job with DuckDuckGo. Keep up the good work!

Interesting interview, and thank you for taking the time to produce high quality audio. Production quality is frequently overlooked but it takes your podcast to a higher level and got me to listen for almost two hours to Gabriel's interview and subscribe for future episodes!

Duck Duck Go is on my mind a lot these days :) Too much probably, but I think it actually embodies the future of search, for some fair sized percentage of the search market.

Right now they're at 0.035% of the market according to my estimates, that's only two doublings away from eclipsing altavista on it's way down.

DDG will be 'just what some people need', but not the general public, that's googles game. So to attack a giant like google you need to go the lilliputs way, many small search engines like DDG probably stand a better chance at nipping away at a giant like google than a single head-on competitor ever would.

Search engines are profitable at ridiculously low levels of traffic (I ran a toy one for a year), if there are good enough tools to tie a bunch of them together and allow keyword sales. This will also mitigate the costs of combating click fraud.

Another thing that could be done between such micro search engines is sharing spam lists.

I've switched to DDG as my default in Chrome again. My main problem is that I'm always afraid that I'm missing good results, so when it's an important search I have a tendency to also use Google. And then after a while I tend to switch back to Google to remove that anxiety.

Not sure how to fix that :-/

Probably the best interview about Gabriel Weinberg.

Is the transcript for this available anywhere? I much prefer text as a medium.