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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by adjkant »

PostOnce wrote: post #20
adjkant wrote: 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.

Come on, we all know that doesn't mean it's getting as wide use as a search engine as Google let's say. And popularity doesn't mean that it's not leaving things on the table. I'm just trying to give feedback as a potential user from a non-technical perspective, which I think most developers overlook.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#33

Post by PostOnce »

adjkant wrote: post #32
PostOnce wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Come on, we all know that doesn't mean it's getting as wide use as a search engine as Google let's say. And popularity doesn't mean that it's not leaving things on the table. I'm just trying to give feedback as a potential user from a non-technical perspective, which I think most developers overlook.

You can't beat Google by trying to be Google without having Google level money, and even then, you still probably can't, Microsoft and Yahoo tried.

So, do something different. It's possible to grow by endearing yourself to geeks first. How'd Firefox catch on to begin with? Geeks, then they recommend to family and friends etc.

Hell, even if geeks were their only users, it'd likely be viable. There are a lot of us.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#34

Post by dredmorbius »

tracerbulletx wrote: post #5
robgibbons wrote: post #3

I thought maybe this would be an actual terminal client, as in a way to search DDG via the terminal.

https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

Nice, though I suspect a bunch of the parameters can be submitted with the request.

I've got a bash function wrapper around w3m that fires off searches from the shell. It's not a dedicated DDG client, but then again, after you hit the search results, the goal is to view the results page. This does use the "lite" page, which is console-browser friendly-er

    ddg () 
    { 
        w3m https://duckduckgo.com/lite?q="$*&fd=-1"
    }
Full params list: https://duckduckgo.com/params

Nothing for number of results on page, that I see, though I've just added the toggle for no redirect ("&fd=-1", included above now).

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#37

Post by godelski »

PostOnce wrote: post #33
adjkant wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on, we all know that doesn't mean it's getting as wide use as a search engine as Google let's say. And popularity doesn't mean that it's not leaving things on the table. I'm just trying to give feedback as a potential user from a non-technical perspective, which I think most developers overlook.

You can't beat Google by trying to be Google without having Google level money, and even then, you still probably can't, Microsoft and Yahoo tried. So, do something different. It's possible to grow by endearing yourself to geeks first. How'd Firefox catch on to begin with? Geeks, then they recommend to family and friends etc. Hell, even if geeks were their only users, it'd likely be viable. There are a lot of us.

> Geeks, then they recommend to family and friends etc.

Or, in my case, parents ask their kids to set up their computers and they install firefox and add things like adblockers.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#39

Post by shakna »

exikyut wrote: post #30

Various 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…

> :why

> Because Devdas uses vimperator with Google?? I don't think they mix well. Devdas, you should try this instead.

I'm not sure this was ever intended to be more than just a quick project. It breaks because parsing has a lot of edge cases, and this was done quickly.

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