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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#15
So I'm sure this is cool to programmers, but this feels like if DDG wants to go towards popular use it should be going in the opposite direction, yeah? I guess this probably wasn't much work (maybe even an internal hackathon project) but still feels like DDG isn't really headings towards popular adoption and I'm curious what their internal focus is.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#16
Just earlier today I thought it would be very cool to use Google assistant in a terminal. It looks like there is an example python project that is close to working with some polishing.

Google assistant is also lacking a client for web browsers, or desktops in general...

It appears free to use the assistant API for non commerical purposes. Until it gets randomly deprecated.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#19
Fedback (see #1) from my use on Firefox 70 on Mac OS Catalina

1. Feedback isn't being sent anywhere (looking at the network requests.)

2. Searching for sum or difference of numbers (eg. 2-1) returns [Object].

3. Typing / or ' invokes the browser's quick find option

4. I can never search for the letter M (or m, or 'm' inside quotes) because it always gives "-- End of search results." instead of the search results.

5. I can never search for a URL (say, http://duckduckgo.com) as a keyword. No results at all.

6. Pressing CTRL-L after typing some text clears the text as well (unlike any other terminal)

7. Pronounce doesn't work at all (audio plays well on Forvo)

Discoveries:

1. Searching for \anything takes you to the first result (on a popup that's blocked by the browser).

2. [Added] A `duck` CLI would be useful.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#20
post #15

So I'm sure this is cool to programmers, but this feels like if DDG wants to go towards popular use it should be going in the opposite direction, yeah? I guess this probably wasn't much work (maybe even an internal hackathon project) but still feels like DDG isn't really headings towards popular adoption and I'm curious what their internal focus is.

It's one of the most popular sites on the internet already.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/duckduckgo.com

It's also built into browsers. So, whatever they're doing, it's working.

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