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I work with Gabe every day and I know how much he appreciates the continued support from the HN community. Generally, it sounds like he/we should post more :) What content would yo…

The project and community are "large" relative to most open source projects but "most" open source projects have fewer than 10 contributors. To get to the scale of, say, Mozilla or…

Thanks! As the community grows, I run into more and more IAs that I didn't know were live. This one really felt supernatural when I was searching for a genuine answer in a moment o…

This is why we need help! :) Really, though, even if we had 100,000 employees, having a great Instant Answer for hyper-niche searches requires esoteric knowledge and expertise that…

Thanks for helping point this out! I lead community at DuckDuckGo and there are a lot more, "Instant Answers" that the world should know about. The community of open source devs re…

Both! We're really in need of some additional folks with commit bits, if you're interested in getting involved on the technical side. This page will help you find the best place to…

I work at DuckDuckGo. Our most popular open source project is DuckDuckHack: http://duckduckhack.com/ Developers leverage code, APIs, wikis, etc. to answer searches (across a broad …

We'll definitely think about how to improve this! We added the Feedback button in the Menu options so that people used the Feedback page: https://duckduckgo.com/feedback That way, …

eek--thanks for the heads up. Not to subject you to that again but do you remember what the subdomain was? Was it content from http://stats.com/ ?

Thanks! We'd also encourage every developer to check out: http://duckduckhack.com/ The example reported doesn't seem to be an issue the organic links but if you find any at all, pl…

To clarify, this is not a DuckDuckGo product and having your autosuggestions come from Google means passing your searches to them as well. The next version of DuckDuckGo was releas…

Gotcha! Sidebar scrolling (via flick, not tap) is still being worked on but the other iffyness sounds iffy :) We'll give it a look.

Duly noted! We'll definitely take that to heart.

Thanks for the heads up! We're going to update this page soon--IMDBAPI uses a variety of sources, one of them (iirc) is OMDBAPI.com and it looks like the error is stemming from the…

Duly noted! It's been relatively hard to discover so we're working on that for the next version of DDG. Really appreciate the feedback in-favor!

Thanks! Looking for it now.

We open sourced our instant answers platform a couple years ago, in the hope to get more eyeballs on them (for quality and quantity): http://duckduckhack.com/ It might not address …

These come from our open source instant answers platform: http://duckduckhack.com/ So, anyone can suggest or create instant answers and it works out better that they're open source…

I mentioned this in my comment above but am wondering if it applies here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7729839 --the !bangs are already categorized and it sounds li…

Making the !bangs more explorable is definitely partner to making them generally more visible. Someone had suggested an instant answer that would actually fix this: https://duck.co…

it's also a DuckDuckGo instant answer (any xkcd comic) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xkcd+1361

Should be fixed now! Thanks again.