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I’m going to give DuckDuckGo.com a week as my default search engine, to see if it is truly a life-altering experience.

My first few searches were promising because my search for “Ruby” did not put the Ruby Programming language at the top of the heap. I got the feeling that this search engine will be popular with regular people—people like me, when I’m not walking and talking technology.

The “ruby” search gave me a felicitous blend of locations, people, fictional characters, music, and computing options. What more could I ask for? And it did it with a clean, uncluttered UI. I like it.

DuckDuckGo.com

It's amusing. I can't help but give it a shot to be my search engine.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be DuckDuckGo.com.

Keep hacking…

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A funny thing happened on my way to get my e-mail today. Chrome identified www.google.com as a dangerous site with a weird SSL certificate and told me to run for safety. In the image below, notice that the https protocol is crossed out, like this: https.

When I went tried to post this tidbit to Twitter (@douglasputnam), I got another warning cautionary note. It looks like Chrome is in Body Guard Mode today.

When the 800-pound Gorilla trips over its own feet, we’re allowed to chuckle.

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