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Yahoo/Mashable BOSS Challenge Finalists (including Duck Duck Go)

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All the finalists (and the other showcased startups and honorable mentions for that matter--see bottom of http://mashable.com/boss/ for list) are pretty cool.

I'm grateful that my site (Duck Duck Go) is among them. If you like it, please support a fellow news.yc'r and vote for it! As a single founder, I need all the help I can get...And thanks again for all the support and comments two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142

I liked DuckDuckGO - and SocialMention the most - SM offered a way to find out about obscure websites mentioning your business genre' -- Also the one that helped with plagerism is nice..

DuckDuckGo is awesome. Voted up. I also like the idea of SocialMention, but it didn't work well for me. Most of the results I got were not relevant.

And you have to wait like 20 seconds until you see the results...

Yahoo BOSS was having issues today...bad timing I know...I hope they are just growing pains. Seems to be resolved now.

This probably belongs in the original DuckDuckGo feedback thread (but it's long buried now) but why does the "more images" link to a Google image search?

The thumbnails are fed from Flickr, and I fully expected to be taken to Flickr when I clicked 'more'.

There are ten finalists, and they are all worth looking at.

As for more images, the image feed is actually coming from BOSS. They just happen to use a lot of Flickr. Ultimately, I hope to have the more links load more images off the BOSS feed, but for now I just sent it to the best image search (IMHO).

There are ten finalists, and they are all worth looking at.

I think he meant that his question belongs in that thread, not your post.

Good point. Sorry josefresco.

Duck Duck Go has a unique view on the world of search. I think that their approach is unique and provides true value in a world evermore dominated by monopoly operations. Excellent search engine!

Seriously, I know you like the product, but this sounds like a 'business school recommendation letter'

Or a shill. This is chessy1984's sole comment.

Just to be clear, I have no idea who this person is (and is of course therefore not me).

I'm sure there are a variety of reasons that you could have posted that and not know who it is :)

I trust you, though.

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