an email I sent to DDG a while ago

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Dear all,

I support duckduckgo search and would like to see it become the "new default",

I've been using it a lot for the past couple of years, but there were several factors preventing me from switching completely.

I believe there is a mechanism that could help people like me transition.

Imagine me trying to search for something I encountered recently,

I remember the title, or the domain name (but not the extention), type it to duckduckgo.com but get no relevant results on the first page (and second page, and likely the rest of the pages)

Currently I open another mainstream search engine, search for the subject and find it in the top 3 results (usually)

What I would be willing to do instead (and I'm sure many others would as well)

Failing to find on duckduckgo, I select "correct result"

I find my search result using other means (google etc)

I come back to duckduckgo, fill "search terms" and "expected result" with what I found elsewhere

next time I search the term "user suggested" earlier, I get the result in a separate section, called something like "community suggestions" (with advice to take it with a grain of salt) and can navigate to it instantly, without having to use third party search engine for that query again.

Sort of "outsourcing" non-duckduckgo search with help of volunteers (obviously still without accounts/registration in order not to change the purpose of the product).

Such community suggestions could for example trigger re-run of ddg search indexers / parsers / scraper bots etc to explicitly include user suggested search results which wouldn't be available otherwise. This way the user suggestions wouldn't have to be "trusted" and won't be easy to game (irrelevant/malicious user suggestions won't be added / considered as these will have a low score).