The black background killed my eyes.
The absence of light killed your eyes? Windmills do not work that way.
Cuiler
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Re: Cuiler
#22Searching for "hamburger" made my day.
seems it has some appropriate "custom" suggestions for a few sites... Facebook and twitter also have appropriate one-liners.
I think more of these types of Internet me-me pictures should appear at the top of the search results(maybe not so huge, but very prevalent). It gives personality to the business that is search. Why use Google when there is a search engine that provides the results you seek but does so with humor.
Re: Cuiler
#23I like this feature - http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21+Hacker+News
Re: Cuiler
#24For the record, this joke was the idea of Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing) of YC & reddit fame. I want to check with him first before outing him--hence the delay :).
Re: Cuiler
#25The "!Bang" page confused me for quite a few seconds.
I have buried in some old memory layer the use of "!" as logic negation prefix (for plain ASCII typing), e.g. x = !y
Curiously, I'm OK with the Unix shell "!cmd" to repeat ...
Re: Cuiler
#26Wow. I searched for my startup and it immediately came up with a breakout box for " (Startup)" with additional links to our VC, a crunchbase profile, and more. That's actually better than Google in semantic relevance.
I agree this is pretty cool, but the more I search the more I feel that the results are targeted solely towards early adopters. Google is the behemoth that it is because normals mistake it for the very Internet itself. If duck duck go wants a shot at any significant share of the search market they'll have to be more welcoming of those same type of folks. (This comment is influenced by today's post by Spencer Fry http…
It's funny, because it's really designed for normals, and the early adopter types complain a lot (rightly so from their perspective) about things for them--bigger text, less density, lighter feel, etc. I do make features for early adopter/advanced users though. It's really a hybrid approach in attempt to "cross the chasm" and get these folks to help introduce it to normals, e.g. their parents and siblings.
Re: Cuiler
#27After the obligatory vanity search yielded positive results (this rarely happens because I'm a nobody), I'm giving it a one week trial as my default search engine. [Edit] It seems to be giving way better results than Bing. Nice to see that smart dudes in garages can still give megacorps a run for their money in their own backyards.
Thanks! Please let me know your feedback after a the trial.
Re: Cuiler
#28The "!Bang" page confused me for quite a few seconds. I have buried in some old memory layer the use of "!" as logic negation prefix (for plain ASCII typing), e.g. x = !y Curiously, I'm OK with the Unix shell "!cmd" to repeat ...
Heh, you think there is a better way to explain it?
Re: Cuiler
#29Searching for "hamburger" made my day.
seems it has some appropriate "custom" suggestions for a few sites... Facebook and twitter also have appropriate one-liners.
If you search for "reddit", you get a reddit icon in the yellow box.
If you search for "hacker news", you get ... a reddit icon in the yellow box.
(And no, it is clearly not an accident.)
Re: Cuiler
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
seems it has some appropriate "custom" suggestions for a few sites... Facebook and twitter also have appropriate one-liners.
If you search for "reddit", you get a reddit icon in the yellow box. If you search for "hacker news", you get ... a reddit icon in the yellow box. (And no, it is clearly not an accident.)
They're special reddit aliens. If HN had special logos like that...