DuckDuckGo Wants Answers to Linux Questions

Post by tagawa » Sat, Apr 30, 2016, 3:16 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #19

tagawa wrote: post #16

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Sorry for the confusion. In the reddit post there are a couple of Linux Instant Answers referenced. They each have an overview page with metadata: https://duck.co/ia/view/linux_cheat_sheet https://duck.co/ia/view/linux_error To actually see them in action, here are two example queries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux%20cheat%20sheet&ia=cheatshee... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux%20enoent It would be great if Linux e…

No probs, your documentation (once I found it) is actually top notch. Take it from someone who had to setup the LibreOffice repo on my system, which is quite well documented, you guys actually have the best and clearest documentation I've seen! Contributing was a pleasure :-)

Post by Ao7bei3s » Sat, Apr 30, 2016, 6:02 PM UTC

thomasfoster96 wrote: post #22

Theizestooke wrote: post #10

My favourite bang is !g

Agreed - I've found that >75% of my DuckDuckGo searches are !bang searches either for Wikipedia or Google-owned sites. I don't actually end up using DuckDuckGo search results all that much.

Post by x1798DE » Sun, May 01, 2016, 2:43 AM UTC

RodericDay wrote: post #24

Ao7bei3s wrote: post #23

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Why use DuckDuckGo then and suffer an extra roundtrip? Chrome supports using different search engines directly. In my Chrome, searching youtube.com is just "you query ", the en.wikipedia.org is "en query ", Google Maps is "maps..." etc. The nice thing is that it picks up various search engines automatically. Useful for work etc. And if you want to use DuckDuckGo occasionally , it's just a "duck " away. (And Google is…

I really dislike Google as a company and I like that DDG allegedly encrypts my searches and gets the data instead.

Post by thomasfoster96 » Wed, May 04, 2016, 11:54 AM UTC

Ao7bei3s wrote: post #23

thomasfoster96 wrote: post #22

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Agreed - I've found that >75% of my DuckDuckGo searches are !bang searches either for Wikipedia or Google-owned sites. I don't actually end up using DuckDuckGo search results all that much.

Why use DuckDuckGo then and suffer an extra roundtrip? Chrome supports using different search engines directly. In my Chrome, searching youtube.com is just "you query ", the en.wikipedia.org is "en query ", Google Maps is "maps..." etc. The nice thing is that it picks up various search engines automatically. Useful for work etc. And if you want to use DuckDuckGo occasionally , it's just a "duck " away. (And Google is…