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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#41

Post by prakash » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:01 AM UTC

kamaal wrote: post #40

There was some news a few days back that DuckDuckGo was shutting down! Where does this leave us. What is happening at DDG? EDIT: Sorry, I read shut out as shut down!

Can you please point us to that article?

Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#42

Post by bluethunder » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:10 AM UTC

S4M wrote: post #37

bluethunder wrote: post #27

I think this might be more useful the other way around. Put ddg inside a linux shell and let me interoperate with linux commands. eg. ddg reviews samsung note | grep "note 2"

For this particular example, why don't you use just ddg reviews samsung "note 2" ?

You are right. Bad example. I was just trying to do something with pipes to illustrate the point.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#43

Post by zdayatk » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:12 AM UTC

It's fantastic. Google should implement their own tty emulator immediately.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#44

Post by sparkinson » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:12 AM UTC

ushi wrote: post #33

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #21

It doesn't search for 'google'. Nothing pops up.

When you are using the https:// page Chrome blocks the API calls, because it throws AJAX requests against the http:// API.

Ah thanks for pointing that out, it was baffling me and I couldn't even send feedback :P

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#45

Post by kamaal » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:23 AM UTC

prakash wrote: post #41

kamaal wrote: post #40

There was some news a few days back that DuckDuckGo was shutting down! Where does this leave us. What is happening at DDG? EDIT: Sorry, I read shut out as shut down!

Can you please point us to that article? Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817466

Prakash,

Thanks for clarifying. Might sound like stereotyping, I apologize if it does. Looking at your name, just asking if you guys have a office in India?

What sort of problems are you working on?

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#46

Post by ch0wn » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:28 AM UTC

I love stuff like this. Clearly targeting hackers is certainly a good idea.

I can't use this in Chrome on my tablet, though, because I can't open the keyboard.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#47

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:34 AM UTC

_b8r0 wrote: post #31

bluethunder wrote: post #27

I think this might be more useful the other way around. Put ddg inside a linux shell and let me interoperate with linux commands. eg. ddg reviews samsung note | grep "note 2"

This was what I was hoping for rather than an ascii terminal style search. Does DDG have an API?

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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#48

Post by chalst » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

kamaal wrote: post #45

prakash wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please point us to that article? Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817466 Prakash, Thanks for clarifying. Might sound like stereotyping, I apologize if it does. Looking at your name, just asking if you guys have a office in India? What sort of problems are you working on?

They're based in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/duck-duck-go

There are quite a lot of Indians and people of Indian descent in the US tech industry.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#49

Post by growt » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:47 AM UTC

Been there, done that :) http://goosh.org/

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#50

Post by Aissen » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 10:48 AM UTC

pirateking wrote: post #15

mwhite wrote: post #6

If the world were full of people who were interested in optimizing their computer interfaces this way, all websites would support a mode of operation like this and there would be a framework for the end user to pipe them to each other like the unix pipeline. Let us make it so!

This has actually been a dream of mine for as long as I have been addicted to the command line. Feel free to contact me if you have thought it through further than I have - would be interested in discussing possible implementations.

You guys should really have a look at Web Outside Of Browsers: http://weboob.org/