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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#51

Post by mda »

nemasu wrote: post #48
jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I 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...

But what percentage of it comes from which partner? They never say this.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#52

Post by hnarn »

mda wrote: post #51
nemasu wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

But what percentage of it comes from which partner? They never say this.

And more importantly, what percentage does not come from any partner.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#53

Post by mda »

s5ma6n wrote: post #49
jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I 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.

My guess is DDG mostly depends on bing technology, at least for anything that is non trivial. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors on what actually DDG is, i would be happy to learn about details of their deals, technology, etc.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#54

Post by mda »

hnarn wrote: post #47
jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I 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.

Logic. Creating and maintaining a half decent search engine requires a billion dollar worth of infrastructure and talent. They have neither.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#56

Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

sk0g wrote: post #13
shmerl wrote: post #9

For some reason it doesn't work for me (nothing happens after typing a search term).

Same here, was pretty excited to try it out too! Help and the likes work, but not just searching.

Wait, help? When I type help I gest a list of search results for help. Did you actually get help text?

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#57

Post by rinchik »

Doesn't work in FF with "Search for text when you start typing". I expected better implementation.

JS hijacks pretty much every event, and cursor is just a styled span, not a real input, which introduces a bunch of usability bugs.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#58

Post by laumars »

jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I 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?

This comment is made a lot but it's only half true. DDG does use Bing to source some of it's results but it does have it's own crawlers too. In practice this means that it isn't "effectively a UI over Bing".

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#59

Post by trpc »

DDG coincidentally makes almost every post to the frontpage as if it was a trillion dollar company meanwhile almost all interesting SHOW HN threads upon which the entire future of livelihood of many indie devs and micro startups depend are buried without even getting the slightest chance to get any coverage.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

#60

Post by Vinnl »

nemasu wrote: post #48
jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I 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...

...so the order of results is still determined by DDG, right?
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