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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by shmerl »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #56
sk0g wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's :help

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by kbd »

keithnz wrote: post #43
kbd wrote: post #7

Somehow 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.

TIL, thanks.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by k1e »

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

It uses DDG json api, which gives different search result than their web version in a lot of cases.

https://api.duckduckgo.com/api

>This API does not include all of our links, however. That is, it is not a full search results API or a way to get DuckDuckGo results into your applications beyond our instant answers. Because of the way we generate our search results, we unfortunately do not have the rights to fully syndicate our results, free or paid. For the same reason, we cannot allow framing our results without our branding. Please see our partnerships page for more info on guidelines and getting in touch with us.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by sct202 »

sveme wrote: post #64
mda wrote: post #54

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

That's circular. They don't have it because they could not? Alas, it's using bing as one source, it's more than just a proxy to bing. And they seem to have their own crawler as well.

I don't think I've ever seen DDG show up in my logs, and I found this article from a web host that listed out their top crawler traffic and DDG doesn't even register (but something called Sogou is): https://deviceatlas.com/blog/most-active-bots-and-crawlers-w...

It might be that DDG sticks to the to X thousand sites or something like that, so I would imagine that Bing must be providing the majority of the index, but maybe not for more popular queries.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by tulunsutao »

jhoechtl wrote: post #65
gandalfian wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A service that combined yandex and google would probably cancel out most of the worlds censorship. I'm not sure where you would be allowed to run such a service from though...

In Russia DDG uses Yandex

in Soviet Union...?

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by 1nd160 »

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.

Except for searching, right? I mean what is the average number of links which DDG returns you for your ordinary search query? Is it even close to Google's results? And what about it's relevance?
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