Should Tamils rename DuckDuckGo search engine as KolaKolaMu?
Before we go there, the first (and most patronizing) advice given to budding bloggers is ‘Do not get obsessed with traffic statistics.’ Usually, this reveal-all follows or precedes the other truth of blogosphere ‘write original content.’
While I totally agree with original content, to totally disregard the traffic statistics is digging a grave for the blog. From the time there were perhaps
;-)
Almost all the referrals are from search engines, with a smattering from blog aggregators, social media, tagging services, and commenting services. Even within search engines, it has been Google search which has referred the bulk of traffic. A couple of referrals from Bing, Yahoo and Yandex show up occasionally, to add some intrigue.
But today is a first. For the first time there have been referrals from the search engine DuckDuckGo. If you have never heard of DuckDuckGo, you are not alone.
Wikipedia entry says ‘DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that puts privacy first and as such it does not store IP addresses, does not log user information and uses cookies only when needed.’ Guess they protect privacy so much, they end up in a (private) publicity zone of themselves.
Popular perception is DuckDuckGo has no way of knowing whether any 2 searches even came from the same computer - quite thought provoking.
Browsing the About pages of DuckDuckGo is interesting - could make us obsessed with privacy and worry about filter bubble. Read more about filter bubble at https://duckduckgo.com/about.
But what I do like about DuckDuckGo is their home page - which is simple and clean; even more so than Google’s.
And what I like even more about DDG (as DuckDuckGo is often shortened) is the referrals from them. Just 2, but then for a guy who started with 2 referrals in a week, two in an hour is worth 200 from Google.
:-D
So what is this crazy idea of renaming DuckDuckGo as KolaKolaMu?
My Whacky half whispers, ‘DuckDuckGo derives its name from the children’s game Duck, Duck, Goose. Tamils would know the game by the local name/variant - Kola, Kolaya Mundhirikka (கொல, கொலையா, முந்திரிக்கா). So, DDG for Tamils should be KolaKolaMu, is it not?’
Before we go there, the first (and most patronizing) advice given to budding bloggers is ‘Do not get obsessed with traffic statistics.’ Usually, this reveal-all follows or precedes the other truth of blogosphere ‘write original content.’
While I totally agree with original content, to totally disregard the traffic statistics is digging a grave for the blog. From the time there were perhaps
- 3 hits a week (in Nov ‘09), to
- 3 hits a day from mobile phones (Dec ‘11), to
- 3 hits an hour from mobile devices (Aug ‘13),
;-)
Almost all the referrals are from search engines, with a smattering from blog aggregators, social media, tagging services, and commenting services. Even within search engines, it has been Google search which has referred the bulk of traffic. A couple of referrals from Bing, Yahoo and Yandex show up occasionally, to add some intrigue.
But today is a first. For the first time there have been referrals from the search engine DuckDuckGo. If you have never heard of DuckDuckGo, you are not alone.
Wikipedia entry says ‘DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that puts privacy first and as such it does not store IP addresses, does not log user information and uses cookies only when needed.’ Guess they protect privacy so much, they end up in a (private) publicity zone of themselves.
Popular perception is DuckDuckGo has no way of knowing whether any 2 searches even came from the same computer - quite thought provoking.
Browsing the About pages of DuckDuckGo is interesting - could make us obsessed with privacy and worry about filter bubble. Read more about filter bubble at https://duckduckgo.com/about.
But what I do like about DuckDuckGo is their home page - which is simple and clean; even more so than Google’s.
And what I like even more about DDG (as DuckDuckGo is often shortened) is the referrals from them. Just 2, but then for a guy who started with 2 referrals in a week, two in an hour is worth 200 from Google.
:-D
So what is this crazy idea of renaming DuckDuckGo as KolaKolaMu?
My Whacky half whispers, ‘DuckDuckGo derives its name from the children’s game Duck, Duck, Goose. Tamils would know the game by the local name/variant - Kola, Kolaya Mundhirikka (கொல, கொலையா, முந்திரிக்கா). So, DDG for Tamils should be KolaKolaMu, is it not?’
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Thanks for the heads up. :-)
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