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 does it support piping results to firefox?
DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#42It sucks so much! I tried typing but apparently was typing too fast and more than half of the letters didn't appear on the screen?
do you have vimium installed? I had similar symptoms till I realized, then realized what was going on. If this is the case, press i to go into insert mode, and you should be good from there
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#43Somehow the input on this doesn't register as an actual textbox. Many of my keystrokes are read by Vimium instead, making this unusable.
in vimium you can go i and you will be in insert mode ( till you hit escape ) and you will be fine.
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#44I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed.
Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#45I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?
Where did you find information it is really a "proxy" to Bing? I couldn't find such information.
BTW, there is also similar private search that proxies queries to google - https://www.startpage.com/
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#46Fedback (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.…
Re: 6. I found that annoying as well. I use CTRL+L to jump to the address bar, not clear the terminal. MacOS uses CTRL+K to clear it and I'd assume that be the case on linux as well.
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#47I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?
Your claim desperately needs a citation.
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#48I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?
Seems people can't find your source, so I did some digging and found this:
"We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing."[0]
[0]https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#49I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?
Are you sure you are not confusing DDG with Ecosia? Ecosia is also an UI to Bing.
Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
#50Fedback (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.…
Re: 6. I found that annoying as well. I use CTRL+L to jump to the address bar, not clear the terminal. MacOS uses CTRL+K to clear it and I'd assume that be the case on linux as well.
Hmm? ctrl-L clears the terminal in iTerm (and in linux terminals too I believe)
Ok looks like CMD-L and CMD-K also clear the terminal in iTerm. But we're talking about "ctrl" here