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Search can get eaten almost overnight. No stickiness. I switched to DDG when Google annoyed me.

With Android, we're already seeing forks in China. A bit more stickiness, but not great stickiness.

Ads is still a big two-sided market.

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> Search can get eaten almost overnight. No stickiness. I switched to DDG when Google annoyed me.

And I've switched Runnaroo.com which has been presented here just some weeks ago. It already feels much better than Google. In rare cases when it fails me I fallback to DuckDuckGo. If DuckDuckGo doesn't manage either - only then I go to Google. In the majority of cases Runnaroo results are the best.

Awesome, and thank you! I'm the creator of Runnaroo. I've actually been surprised at how willing people have been to switch default search engines. Right now I believe it is mostly early adopters and tech focused people (like here on HN) using the service, so I'm not sure if the general population will be as willing to switch to a new search engine. I personally believe they will if the service gets good enough.

Thank you for a great job! Keep doing it! By the way, organic economy already starts growing around Runaroo. E.g. I'm already spending thousands dollars (and I'm going to spend much more over time, and this takes place in Europe where normal salaries are not as high as in the US) on things and services I order from local non-IT companies whose web sites I've found with Runnaroo. I hope we can break the Google's monopoly and sort of divert some cash flow from bullshit SEO and spyware marketers to real people.

The search results are qualitatively different from Google or DDG. The first one I tried, for a very specific term was a lot better. The second one, for a generic question, was a bit worse. That's helpful!

Minor UX quirk: I need to hit <enter> twice to search. That's probably enough friction to lose a lot of people.

I'd like to check out Runnaroo but our enterprise site blocker blocks it due to its having the web category 'Uncategorized URLs' - so I can't get to it where I need it most! Right now I use DDG so whatever they're doing is good with our site blocker.

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