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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by sepeek » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 4:48 AM UTC

laumars wrote: post #58

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".

Here's an old but interesting SO post that if true would indicate otherwise https://stackoverflow.com/a/24089393

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by PostOnce » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 10:19 PM UTC

1nd160 wrote: post #78

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.

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?

The results are largely the same, in my test searches, all the tops results on ddg match the top results on google.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 11:27 PM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #34

tracerbulletx wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pa…

NB: that should be "&kd=-1", not "fd".

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