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Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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Post by revorad »

masklinn wrote: post #57
revorad wrote: post #53

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When DDG fails, use !g followed by your query. It takes you straight to the Google results. Decent compromise while you wait for DDG to improve in certain areas (and it is improving).

> Decent compromise while you wait for DDG to improve in certain areas (and it is improving). Since it mostly uses Y!S's results, which tend to suck compared to google's (for my searches anyway), I'm not sure it can improve much in that area, which is by far the one that pains me the most. And if I'm going to use google 9 times out of 10, I can just remove the indirection.

I wouldn't say it's as bad as 9/10. They don't mostly use Y! results from what I've heard from Gabriel. They do their own crawling and ranking too, so I do expect results to improve. They can afford to be more liberal about banning spammy sites, which helps a lot.

0-click info and search ideas are really nice features. Another useful hashbang I use a lot is !a which searches amazon directly.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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Post by mseebach »

dools wrote: post #39
timr wrote: post #35

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Because that would be spam. Edit: voting me down for refusing to submit the same article to HN, linked through my own blog? Wow.

According to the guidelines: "If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead." I think a blog post along the lines of "Several regular HN members made it into Time Magazine's Top 50" in follow up to a single link to DDG making it in fits within the guidelines, but to each their own. All I'm saying is that, thi…

That's addressed to the Slashdot defectors who'd gotten used to every link being wrapped in a couple of sentences of clever commentary.

The spirit of that guideline is that a link should speak for it self. If it can't, don't submit it. If YOU want to say something, write a blog post.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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Post by iamelgringo »

timr wrote: post #27

So did Hipmunk: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... ...and AirBnB: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... The Instapaper guy is a long-time HN contributor, as well: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... The headline should really be changed to something neutral.

Hey, Tim.

The headline should really be changed to something neutral.

YC startups already get tons of free press and PR by virtue that their investor controls HN. I thought it would be nice to highlight another founder's startup as well.

To explain, the original title of the post was "Duck Duck Go makes Time Magazine's top 50 sites of the year"

Personally, I feel that Gabriel contributes more to HN content and startup culture than the AirBnb, Hipmunk or Instapaper founders combined. And, that's not to detract at all from the great work those other startups have done.

The reason that I highlighted Duck Duck Go,and Gabriel, was because he in particular, has done something amazing: he's boot strapped a search engine essentially by himself to 8M unique searches a month.

He's also taken things like search privacy, and tithing revenues to Open Source projects, and brought them to the forefront of discussion. His blog also has a _ton of great content on it, especially his series on traction is amazing.

The original title got 10 votes in the first 5 minutes after I posted it. That Duck Duck Go doesn't get some of the kudos they have coming to them is disappointing.

Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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timr wrote: post #27

So did Hipmunk: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... ...and AirBnB: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... The Instapaper guy is a long-time HN contributor, as well: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... The headline should really be changed to something neutral.

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Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

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Post by timr »

iamelgringo wrote: post #65
timr wrote: post #27

So did Hipmunk: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... ...and AirBnB: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... The Instapaper guy is a long-time HN contributor, as well: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... The headline should really be changed to something neutral.

Hey, Tim. The headline should really be changed to something neutral. YC startups already get tons of free press and PR by virtue that their investor controls HN. I thought it would be nice to highlight another founder's startup as well. To explain, the original title of the post was "Duck Duck Go makes Time Magazine's top 50 sites of the year" Personally, I feel that Gabriel contributes more to HN content and startu…

"Personally, I feel that Gabriel contributes more to HN content and startup culture than the AirBnb, Hipmunk or Instapaper founders combined."

...and you're obviously free to express your opinion in the thread. But it's never been fair game to editorialize the headlines on story submissions here. (And for what it's worth, I think it was a fairly classy move that the editor didn't change the link/headline to emphasize the YC companies.)

DDG and Gabriel pop up on the front page of HN on a regular basis. They get plenty of attention here without having to slight the other 49 websites in this list.

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