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DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
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#22I can't seem to search for "kubernetes" or "kubernetes linux"; with or without quotes.
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#23I can't seem to search for "kubernetes" or "kubernetes linux"; with or without quotes.
That's a feature.
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#24So 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.
They already have a "cool" (browser) interface, and other plain ones. Adjust your nerd filter, they're just having some fun.
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#25Fedback (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.…
ddgr perhaps?
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#26So 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.
Maybe, but it's working great already for everyday use. Besides, Google does nerdy stuff like this all the time and people love them for it.
I've been using it full time for a bit longer than two years. In the beginning I think I had to use "g!" to search on google maybe 1 / 5 times, now I really only search on google maybe once a month and when I do I often don't find any better results. It's really come a long way from the first time I tried using it 5 or 6 years ago.
At this point it's good enough that I think I could recommend someone else switch to it without needing to change their search habits.
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#27This could be an excellent way to convert those who enjoy the command line (including me). I get awfully sick of google's garbage, "We've detected automated traffic from your systems." I don't scrape stuff, but if I did, so what? This is worse on things like tor or if I can't use JS. Why can't I just type in a query and get back a result? Now, please make this an actual CLI. I want to type `search "performant c hash…
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#28So 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.
I agree 100% ... i use DDG everyday yet Im just using Bing and the reality is Bing is no Google. Google's results are hands down the best on the web and thats without being signed into Google.
DDG has so much momentum behind it now I dont understand why they dont do all they can to create a search engine all their own(bulk up search engineers.. bulk up on venture funding...make acquisition that improve its search, etc). One that is as good or better then Google. I so want to be able to keep recommending it yet not have to hear friends/family say its not as good as Google.
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#29So 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.
I'd disagree for a wildly "out there" reason. We've been conditioned to assume search should be like Google and so any attempt made by someone else gets compared against Google... but that's a losing battle from the start. As the "out there" reason - I enjoy professional wrestling and recently AEW has appeared (literally weeks ago). One of the immediate criticisms was that they were not like WWE's production, but among the fanbase, they were fine with it and made arguments that WWE's version of how a pro wrestling show should be is exactly what pushed fans away from the product. Some of their allure is being more gritty and "real", but their presentation is clearly different from the main product and its getting complimented for that currently.
As to DDG vs. Search, maybe this is a bit programmer leaning; however, I'd say that was some of the draw that got Firefox and Chrome to own the web browser market. They presented products that developers and techies enjoyed using and always kept them (initially) in their vision. I recall telling my parents they needed to switch from IE to Chrome because "it was just better" a decade ago. So, while this brutalistic terminal version of DDG only caters to a niche market, it's the same niche market that ends up spreading why it's the "better" product.
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#30Various comments are noting that certain queries are not working.
I think this is hitting a caching/prefetch layer and not actually querying the main index.
My theory:
- this was a hackathon/weekend/20%(ish) project...
- ...using JSON for simplicity...
- ...said JSON endpoint needs to be exposed in a straightforward way...
- ...without implementing authentication/obfuscation (which would have blown the allotted time budget)...
- ...and so the decision was made to "break" the results in some way instead, so that once you realize https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&o=json is EXTREMELY easy to parse, it's of no value.