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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by bombcar »

elicksaur wrote: post #450
kawfey wrote: post #442

I grew up using Google (and ask jeeves and yahoo.) In school, google won. Now, google sucks. It's all ads, AI SEO maxxing, and the work to find useful results has gone up manyfold. I found myself using site:"" to get closer to what I needed. I tried DDG, and it's more or less the same, but it's like the search engine is conspiring against you to more or less find completely useless results. I tried kagi, and i love i…

>it's like the search engine is conspiring against you to more or less find completely useless results. Has not been my experience at all. Been using ddg as my default for a few years. What kinds of searches do you find frustrating?

In my experience DDG and Google are similar in that you either get what you wanted right away, or you’re doomed

At least with Kagi it’s been worth scrolling down a page or two before reformatting my search query.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by Atlas48 »

kawfey wrote: post #442

I grew up using Google (and ask jeeves and yahoo.) In school, google won. Now, google sucks. It's all ads, AI SEO maxxing, and the work to find useful results has gone up manyfold. I found myself using site:"" to get closer to what I needed. I tried DDG, and it's more or less the same, but it's like the search engine is conspiring against you to more or less find completely useless results. I tried kagi, and i love i…

I main DDG for it's bang feature. It's permanently ingrained into my muscle memory now.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by adamomada »

r2_pilot wrote: post #294
exikyut wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very very technically, if RDP is enabled and working, this could be fixed by rdesktop-ing to the machine from a Linux box and using xdotool to experiment with typing raw keyboard scancodes through the RDP session in the hope you figure out the encoding of the Copilot key.

The Copilot key is actually Left-Shift + Windows key + F23

And you can remap it but can’t use it as a modifier key https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-copilo...

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by adamomada »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #361
rchaud wrote: post #341

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Update: the payment gateway is Stripe, which is not processing any transactions associated with the MS account. A developer has posted the issue to HN in the hope that a Stripe employee will see it and escalate the issue. /s

I love that you had to include the /s because someone might actually believe that is indeed the case. What a bizarre world we live in.

Poe’s Law is pretty old by now

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by benhurmarcel »

firebird84 wrote: post #246
dewey wrote: post #168

> Hopefully DDG will be back soon, as I'm loathe to go back to Google for search. Maybe Kagi is an option for you? I'm very happy with them and exclusively use them for more than a year now after never getting comfortable with DDG.

Kagi has the same problem for me. The results don't load about 50% of the time. I had to cancel my subscription because I couldn't just roll the dice every time I searched to see if it would come back. Happens to all devices on my network.

Have you contacted their support?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

coldtea wrote: post #317
grimoald wrote: post #285

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Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think). I use it at work every day and it is super helpful. I haven't compared it to ChatGPT, though.

> Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think). Because such branding deserves a snarky tone.

Thank you.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by adamomada »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #127
hhh wrote: post #124

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because not that many people use search engines other than google

which is surprising given how unbearable google has gotten it's a bit like sticking to using windows in 2010

It’s not surprising. For approximately everyone there are only two search engines: Chrome and Edge

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by [deleted] »

ReadCarlBarks wrote: post #290
npteljes wrote: post #228

I love the acknowledgement that DDG put on their page. We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row. In the meantime, you can use other search engines right here by using "bangs" So fun and straightforward.

Firefox users can create their own "bangs" with bookmark keywords. Just bookmark https://example.com/%s and then assign a keyword to it from the Library window (full bookmarks manager).

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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

lenerdenator wrote: post #271
TechDebtDevin wrote: post #230

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I'm still unsure of what MS Copilot is. For the longest time I thought it was GH Cp because of the obvious association, but it's not. I'm assuming it's some bunk ass Bing "AI" assisted search? I truly think MS is the perfect example of a moat experiencing a drought. Unfortunately, money can't buy rain, it can only pump water from other sources. This never works.

For better or for worse, it absolutely works. Pumping water from other sources or copying another type of well has been Microsoft's MO for almost 50 years and they're one of the most valuable companies on the planet.

We are on different scales of time. This does not work. Ask MS how well this technique went with phones. Their moat is as wide as the Mississippi. It will be a while, but there's a large quantity of water required to fill that ditch. They obviously know what they're doing, but time has a way of eating things.
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