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Love the new look. One thing I want to bring up is page load speed. I went 2 weeks with DDG as my default search engine for all browsers but I had to switch back because of the difference in page load speed. Its just .5-1 second slower then Google and I cannot stand it.

I would find the results to be fine, and the interface to be good but the fact I had to wait slightly longer drove me absolutely up the wall.



I tried a DDG experiment on my home machine and after 6 weeks or so I switched back to Google. Sometimes DDG was almost as fast as my thought process but very often I found myself waiting several seconds for search results.

It sounds trivial but those were very, very long seconds. When I'm in the middle of a deep programming problem I need an answer now while it's still fresh in my mind. Giving me 2 seconds for my mind to wander off is too much.

Another problem that I had was that there was no way to sort my results. However, that looks to be solved with the latest DDG interface. :)

Get the speed up and I'll be back!


You could try http://duckduckgo.com/html for faster responses. :)


Thanks. I completely understand and know that speed is a continual top priority.


Thanks! Good to see its not just me and that its something that is actively being worked on.




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