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Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by akvadrako » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:41 AM UTC

catalogia wrote: post #68

heavyset_go wrote: post #34

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Mozilla is deprecating OpenSearch support in Firefox[1] at some point. The OpenSearch standard is what provides this functionality. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/15/search-engine-add...

What the fuck.. Mozilla is really hell bent in this war on their own users aren't they? Does this mean I'll have to install an extension to replace each search keyword I have? That would be dozens of extensions, many of them for obscure niche websites.

No need for an extension, you can still set bookmarks that search with keywords.

It just won’t automatically create the URL pattern the site suggests.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by akvadrako » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:42 AM UTC

input_sh wrote: post #26

throwaway8941 wrote: post #20

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JFYI, there's no need to install anything. Focus on a search field on (almost any) website, open the context menu, and "Add a keyword for this search". Put a letter or two into the "keyword" input. Profit.

As someone hearing about this for the first time, are custom searches portable? Do they sync with Firefox Sync? Do they work on Firefox for Android?

You can manually create custom searches as regular bookmarks with a keyword so they should sync.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by catalogia » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:43 AM UTC

dfee wrote: post #15

Honest question: what distinguishes DDG from Google or Bing? Why shouldn’t they (or won’t they) follow the same trajectory as our once beloved “don’t be evil” Google of the late 2000s? I’ve used DDG off and on, and I think the interface is fine (perhaps better these days as Google seems to have gotten worse), but I see the idea of selling clicks as being too lucrative. Are we just rooting for the downfall of the incu…

Don't wed yourself to any brand for life. When the day comes that DuckDuckGo becomes a villain, drop them like a hot rock.

> Are we just rooting for the downfall of the incumbent / the rise of the underdog?

Until somebody comes up with a better idea, yes.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by moralestapia » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:46 AM UTC

A testimony on how hard it is to compete in a red ocean. Ten years, big growth and still barely a dent on Google's share. But I hope you get there someday.

Congratulations to the team behind this!

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by akvadrako » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:47 AM UTC

I would like to use DDG but it needs a verbatim mode that I can use as a default. That’s the best feature of Google.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by pheug » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:47 AM UTC

jmarbach wrote: post #28

Ironically I just made the switch to DDG today with Firefox because Google’s results have become so polluted and irrelevant. I expected Firefox to ship with DDG as the default but alas it did not to my surprise. Why is Google still the default in Firefox?

Because Google pays them to do it and essentially to a large extent sponsors Firefox's development. Would you rather have Firefox die due to lack of funding?

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by dt3ft » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:49 AM UTC

Any chance that DDG will not turn into Google if/when they grow too much?

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by tomThom » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:51 AM UTC

I don't want to sound like an astroturfer but bing results have actually gotten much better too. Though search is a big field and something I wouldn't mind mozilla getting into too.

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by aloknnikhil » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:52 AM UTC

vchernobyl wrote: post #36

I just tried DDG for the first time, and I'm blown away how good it is! Since I'm mostly using search engines for programming, I searched for "clojure filter" on DDG out of curiosity. It gave me all the relevant documentation pages BUT here is the "blown away" part - it showed me a small Clojure code snippet on the right side of the screen, explaining the usages of the "filter" with a short and concise docstring. It…

That's not all. DDG has cheat sheets for common Unix commands.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=grep+cheat+sheet

Re: DuckDuckGo Traffic

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Post by idclip » Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:53 AM UTC

winrid wrote: post #50

idclip wrote: post #48

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Someone on that dev board is old school. 90s IRC days old school.

While I understand the nostalgia, I think this convention has carried into "today" in Games too, like "!kick bots". Maybe they're gamers. ;)

Whoever first implemented those bots ...