<story><title>Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it&apos;s getting shut out</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-duckduckgobre8al00i-20121121,0,6650221.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>From the article:&lt;p&gt;&quot;In an interview on Wednesday, [Gabriel] Weinberg said it is difficult to make his DuckDuckGo the default search site in Google&apos;s Chrome web browser, and that Google disadvantages his company in the Android mobile operating system as well. ....&lt;p&gt;&quot;It&apos;s one-click to get onto Firefox and it&apos;s five steps on Chrome and people generally fail,&quot; he said.&lt;p&gt;The Google spokeswoman said popular search alternatives were offered on its Chrome browser in a dropdown menu, such as Yahoo and Microsoft&apos;s Bing, but any search engine could be easily added.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noibl</author><text>Wait, &apos;one-click&apos;?&lt;p&gt;In Firefox if I click the dropdown on the search field, then click &apos;Manage Search Engines&apos; I get a dialog in which can be found a link to &apos;Get more search engines...&apos;.&lt;p&gt;Clicking that opens an add-ons store tab with the &apos;Search Tools&apos; filter applied, none of whose above-the-fold suggestions has anything to do with DDG. That&apos;s not one-click, it&apos;s a runaround.&lt;p&gt;In contrast, Chrome &lt;i&gt;automatically&lt;/i&gt; adds search engines as you browse the web and lets you set any one of them as the default. It also has clearly labelled fields to let you create your own by copying the format of the ones listed. Getting to there takes 3 clicks and a scroll.&lt;p&gt;Two reasonable gripes: the existence of the free-edit fields is not immediately obvious upon clicking &apos;Manage search engines...&apos; and neither is the fact that the domain name in the second column is an editable keyword.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it&apos;s getting shut out</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-duckduckgobre8al00i-20121121,0,6650221.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>From the article:&lt;p&gt;&quot;In an interview on Wednesday, [Gabriel] Weinberg said it is difficult to make his DuckDuckGo the default search site in Google&apos;s Chrome web browser, and that Google disadvantages his company in the Android mobile operating system as well. ....&lt;p&gt;&quot;It&apos;s one-click to get onto Firefox and it&apos;s five steps on Chrome and people generally fail,&quot; he said.&lt;p&gt;The Google spokeswoman said popular search alternatives were offered on its Chrome browser in a dropdown menu, such as Yahoo and Microsoft&apos;s Bing, but any search engine could be easily added.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rodion_89</author><text>I&apos;m curious, how many clicks is it to replace Bing as the default in IE?&lt;p&gt;Isn&apos;t it impossible for DDG to become the default in Safari?&lt;p&gt;Not saying they&apos;re wrong to point it out, but rather that they should be consistent in pointing fingers if they do.</text></comment>