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Link to your site? :)
http://iconfinder.com
Why have I not heard about this before? This is awesome.
The 50 Best Websites of 2011
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#72Congrats to DDG but wow Time has the worst navigation I've ever seen for a collection. Where am I currently in that list? Where is the entire list? How do I start over? Go to the end? Why does it do full page reloads for every click?
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#73I'm sure Gabriel will pass by here at some point so I want to ask a question: do you find that going into an industry where you have absolutely no "first mover" advantage, where several others are already "doing it better" and where those you're competing against are so insanely "better resourced" than you daunting or comforting? I guess what I'm trying to learn from you is what your mental state is like on a day to…
I'm definitely "a long-term thinker." I've already been at it for over 3.5yr :).
However, I got into it out of pure interest with no original intention/particular belief that it would get this far. Now though, I believe we have an established long-term vision and are executing on it.
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#74How many of you are using it as your default search engine? I am. I don't think it's as good as Google, but I think it's good enough, some things are useful, like the quick links, and at least the user interface is cleaner, there is no stupid auto-complete etc.
I did for a while and loved the bang searches like everyone else, but I missed the speed of Google searches -- so I eventually went back. Yes, it's a relatively silly quibble, but that second or two more of loading feels pretty significant.
It's not silly at all, and we're working on that.
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I do for now, but its match failures (especially on computers-related stuff) is making me consider switching back to google more every day. Match results really are much lower quality than on google. > there is no stupid auto-complete That's really something I don't care about, since I never search directly from the site, always from my browser.
Same here. I have it set as my primary search engine for months how but recently noticed that I am more often than not already add the !s or !g to get Google results instead when entering my terms in the address bar. One of my biggest gripes is probably that it will only display one result per domain unless you restrict a search solely to that domain. And it often shows not the most relevant or logical result for a q…
Please do send in specific examples -- we really do use them to make a lot of improvements.
Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011
#76Congrats to DDG but wow Time has the worst navigation I've ever seen for a collection. Where am I currently in that list? Where is the entire list? How do I start over? Go to the end? Why does it do full page reloads for every click?
Just the links & titles : http://pastebin.com/HmtPif1c
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The best reason for me is the quality. Between the disambiguation feature and the lack of spam and crappy sites, DDG is really good at finding what you want it to.
In some domains. Whenever I give it a go, as soon as I turn to work it fails me (work is math for me).
Would love to incorporate a lot more math stuff, as I suspect there are some great sources out there. If you are so inclined, please let us know about them or add them to this Wiki: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki
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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…
But it's never been fair game to editorialize the headlines on story submissions here.
I don't understand your comment about editorializing headlines. The process of editorializing is making changes after the copy has been submitted. And, that's what happened to both the headline and original url that I submitted.
I submitted a link to this url[1] via bookmarklet. I trimmed extra headline cruft, and clicked "submit". The community upvoted it to #1, after you posted your comment, an unknown mod changed/editorialized the headline to remove references to DDG, and changed the url to this[2], which is pretty crap content IMHO, that I would never submit. I don't get that.
I'll stop this meta discussion, because it's really not that productive and uninteresting.
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[1] http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...
[2] http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2087815,0...
Re: The 50 Best Websites of 2011
#79Congrats to DDG but wow Time has the worst navigation I've ever seen for a collection. Where am I currently in that list? Where is the entire list? How do I start over? Go to the end? Why does it do full page reloads for every click?
Just the links & titles : http://pastebin.com/HmtPif1c
Thanks! I was just going to ask for this. I hate multi pages and endless galleries.
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#80I've heard a lot of about duckduckgo on here and on reddit. Are there actual compelling reasons to use this service over google? Is the only reason their privacy policy? I saw a commenter on the linked site state that duckduckgo is great for programming, what does this mean?
These are the things I use daily that I find the most useful: Lots of nice zero-click goodies: * StackOverflow integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remove+directory+symlink (can also search directly with !so) * IP Address: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip * Common symbol tables: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table http://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+entities * Wolfram Alpha integration: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d%28cos%28x^…
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