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Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by Pacabel »

coherentpony wrote: post #34
terminado wrote: post #31

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For the love of christ, whatever you do, please don't ever implement "DuckDuckGo Instant®". This auto-complete predictive suggestion list business isn't half bad, but there's nothing I hate more about Google than their bloody "Instant" features.

Nothing wrong with implementing it and giving users an option to turn it on or off. Immediate disregard seems a little harsh.

Are you currently seeing that option somewhere? I looked in the settings, but I did not see it there, and I do not see any other way to disable that functionality.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by sdougbrown »

sjs382 wrote: post #80

Proxima Nova at 600 weight displays really weird on my work machine: http://i.imgur.com/O9GU0TG.png . Is there a chance you might reconsider the font choice? Looks great, if I force Helvetica.

Do you have Proxima Nova installed locally? The font stack does look for a locally installed version of the font first - it looks like it's applying the 900 font weight instead of 600.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by crisnoble »

claudius wrote: post #129
dchuk wrote: post #98

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A practical application for fixed headers is retaining access to search fields on pages with infinite scrolling (which is why they're doing it here). Otherwise, you might be ten pages deep and then have to scroll all the back up to search again. With this, search is accessible at all times.

The ‘search field’ is called an address bar combined with predefined search engines in my browser and accessible at all times using C-x f d without fiddling around with site-defined search entry fields. Oh, and it’s much smaller and takes up space anyhow…

What about people who use Windows 8 where the address bar disappears? Or mobile devices?

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by sjs382 »

sdougbrown wrote: post #182
sjs382 wrote: post #80

Proxima Nova at 600 weight displays really weird on my work machine: http://i.imgur.com/O9GU0TG.png . Is there a chance you might reconsider the font choice? Looks great, if I force Helvetica.

Do you have Proxima Nova installed locally? The font stack does look for a locally installed version of the font first - it looks like it's applying the 900 font weight instead of 600.

I did. Seems that I had the regular weight and black version only. Disabled the "black" and it is rendering better now.

Looks amazing, once I fixed that issue.

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by andrewguenther »

antris wrote: post #67
canadaj wrote: post #59

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Yes it does? The search engine won't track you, but that doesn't stop your ISP or anyone else along the chain.

I mean that the guarantee from an US-based company that they won't track you is meaningless, because they can be ordered in secret court to hand over all their information with a gag order. After that the only way for us to know would be a whistleblower. And even then we would only know that we are unsafe, not that we are safe.

They would have to keep any of that information in the first place...

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by pnathan »

ronaldx wrote: post #164
yegg wrote: post #103

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To be clear, we still don't collect or share personal information and auto-suggest does not impact that at all. I appreciate it may make you and others uncomfortable and we're sensitive to that, but it is not a change in terms of privacy. We simply do not associate queries with personal information (e.g. IP addresses) and in fact don't store any of it at all.

Understood. Can you clarify how you have the data to provide an auto-suggest?

Not yegg, but if you store a database of queries, along with frequencies, you can do a prefix match on what's already in the search box and return that. I'm speculating that DDG does something that. It doesn't take any PII to do that unless the query itself includes PII. E.g., "websites operated by paul nathan" is pretty PII. :)

Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo

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Post by pizzashark »

fsck--off wrote: post #61

I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have had a positive experience using it. This redesign incorporates two of the worst design trends today: very low contrast text and gratuitously, obnoxiously large fixed headers. I dislike fixed headers on any non-phone/tablet UI because almost all laptop and desktop screens are widescreen. Fixed position elements on the sides of the screen make much more sense, altho…

I agree with most of what you said, but I personally prefer lighter text on a white background to black on white. It looks cleaner when the text is lighter.
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