Look forward to seeing what else he comes up with. He's definitely got the skills.

I like the idea. My penny pinching mother and father will LOVE the idea. I'm just wondering how you can make any kind of serious money from uber-thrifty people like my parents.

I'm going to spread the word about you guys anyway. Best of luck!

Awesome, glad you liked it. Don't think the serious money will come with this one. I view web startups as an exploratory creative process (curious to see how network effects works with this one). Success will follow passion and persistence. Thanks for the encouragement.

I'm finding that the best "SEO" is creating quality content and using web assets creatively. Creative being the key word here, since even the best SEO can't make bad content good.

Here's a good list of suggestions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1754790

Sahar Hashemi, founder of the Coffee Republic chain, said "When we tried to start up Coffee Republic, we were turned down by 19 bank managers. I was told we were a nation of tea drinkers and no one was going to want to spend more than 60p for a cup of coffee or use silly names such as skinny lattes."

This is from The Power of No: http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/the-power-of-no-1.746628

It's a great question, and could be an inspiring thread if we can get some more examples.

I've been kicking the tires on DuckDuckGo for several months now, and while it is ever improving, Google's results are still more relevant.

Still, I totally think DDG is on Google's radar, and while CEO Eric Schmidt has stated Bing is their competition (and they are) they have to wonder about about DDG's logarithmic rise in popularity.

What are the numbers?

Here's his traffic page: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Getting close to 2M pageviews/month.

Who are those users? Are they mostly the type that frequent Hacker News?

Do the bookmarks become public for others to read? I don't like letting everyone know what I read, for reasons of competitive advantage.

No. All the pages added to Zukmo are private to you. Unless you take some action to share them, they remain private to you.

If you want to share them, you can explicitly share them via Zukmo. We also provide options to share the bookmarks on Facebook and Twitter.