A question for DDG or anyone who might know: How does DDG plan to monetize this without storing any data?
By selling adverts based on the current query. It already does so.
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New DuckDuckGo design
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Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#182I used DDG as my main search engine instead of Google for two weeks just now, but ended up going back because very often DDG just couldn't find the results I'm used to finding with Google in that amount of keywords. Usually I had to add "github", "npm" or some other word that would narrow it down for DDG, while Google just knew what I wanted and/or already visited. Maybe it's the lack of personalized search results o…
Instead, add !github or !npm to the beginning of the query to use those site's internal searches. For a specific fulltext site search, "site:" works.
But that isn't the point. The point is that in Google you don't need to do that — it just knows what you're searching on (possibly) due to the personalisation.
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the commonly known symbol for a menu button, and is used throughout the site. Don't see what the problem is?
I suppose given an assumption of who uses DDG it's okay to use the icon, but my core point is really that it's not as common as one may think. In general, solely using an icon instead of text (or a combination of the two) is poor from a usability standpoint. Within a mobile context, I can understand the general push towards more compact treatments, but an icon with three lines does not intrinsically have any definiti…
I like the arrowed version that DDG uses; I haven't seen that elsewhere (that I can recall) so far. I think the arrows encourage clicking on it to find out what is behind it, and most folks will probably not want or need to access the information behind it anyway. I prefer less text clutter personally. My personal favorite menu indicator is a small triangle in the corner of the screen (that you mouse over to get to the menu), but that is even easier to miss if you aren't expecting it (the triangle needs to be large for touch interfaces but if standardized could be set to be tiny or not graphically displaying for folks who know it is there and have a mouse).
Also, even if not perfect, I would love if sites that use infinite scroll would standardize on something to get to the stuff that is usually in small text at the bottom, and that icon seems as good as anything to me.
Firefox just changed to the three lines menu icon for the main menu so a bunch more people who haven't noticed it before will be forced to figure out what it means.
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#184More search results than layout, but as a friend pointed out, "open source office suite" produces notably and significantly different top results in DDG and Google.
Specifically: the DDG results don't rank the arguably top-rated open source offic suite (LibreOffice) at the top of the results page, instead showing an order suspiciously similar to that of Bing. Google (both logged in and out) puts LibreOffice at the top of results, as does StartPage.
Some argue a bias against free software by DDG. I apply Hanlon's razor, but this is one example where improving results would be a bonus.
Screencaps of results:
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#185On the page layout: one very positive sign is that my custom stylesheet appears to make no difference whatsoever to how the page displays. Which means that either the CSS classes have all been changed or my suggestions (recently here on HN) were all adopted.
I noticed the change, and it didn't annoy me much (any change is a bit discombobulating), which is actually high praise. I haven't stumbled into any "woah, that's cool!" features yet (though I'm noticing a few things and nodding appreciatively).
Just checked the "what's new" and I'm pretty much liking.
I'd still love to see time-bounded search provided. That's one of the very few uses that will draw me back to Google for general Web search (Google's special collections: books, scholar, news, etc., may bring me in more often).
I've been using DDG off and on for a couple of years and solidly since last June. It's definitely working for me.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should try the "Classic" theme, which at least shows results' titles as blue, but not all links.
I like ianstormtaylor's suggestion above more (which uses one orange color for titles and gray for links). Mixing both orange and blue in the Classic theme for links and titles looks somewhat irritating. UPDATE: DDG allows setting custom colors, great! Check out https://duckduckgo.com/settings (Color).
Amazing! Thanks for the tip. For others, the two colors I went with are:
Normal: #C22D00
Visited: #CF6D5ARe: New DuckDuckGo design
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
By selling adverts based on the current query. It already does so.
Thanks. That is sort of like going to war with knives amongst machine guns, but what do I know.
I'd say it's more like harvesting with a sickle when the competition uses John Deeres.
Doesn't mean you can't make a lot of money with your sickle.
Re: New DuckDuckGo design
#188Here's the announcement I just posted on our blog: https://duck.co/blog/whatsnew Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to us during our public beta period! Please keep the feedback coming so we can quickly iterate. We really do listen to it all.
http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
Ironically, that page fails with JS disabled.
Related: I've spent more than a few minutes on sites unwrapping carouseled content to just display stacked on the page. It's fucking annoying.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I search "Baptiste Mispelon" in Google, the first three results are: (1) Ad for Christianity (2) GitHub Profile (3) Twitter Profile When I search the same thing on DuckDuckGo, the first three results are: (1) Twitter Profile (2) LinkedIn Profile (3) GitHub Profile I definitely think that the first couple of results on DuckDuckGo are as useful as those produced by Google, if not more so.
Strange, I don't see any ads at the top :O on Google. I have no ad blocker enabled.
Adblock, do not track, ghostery, privacy badger, and Google's opt-out cookie are among the tools I'm aware of which may affect this behavior. It's complicated.
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#190The fonts look messed up for me (Debian testing / Firefox 29.0.1). In some cases letter i has a shifted dot (see the word Wikipedia in the last search result in the image below): https://i.imgur.com/SsicEFJ.png The fonts come from here: * https://duckduckgo.com/font/ProximaNova-Sbold-webfont.woff * https://duckduckgo.com/font/ProximaNova-Reg-webfont.woff
This is due to patents. I blogged a solution some while ago, but since then removed my the entire blog, here is a raw paste of the original commit: https://gist.github.com/klrr/73ce6da0fb6947ed92a5
Autohinter did make things better for the "i" letter (but not completely).
Here is my final result for adding to $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
@font-face:DDG_ProximaNova
true
lcddefault