Well kudos on letting my right click and copy URL from search results! I hate how Google insists on using https://www.google.com.bo/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we... - yeah Google, totally makes sense.
Godspeed duckduckgo!
The next version of DuckDuckGo
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Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo
#22DDG has been my primary search engine for nearly 2 years. I love you guys for both your service and your mission. You've struggled in the past with local searches and map inferences to non-address searches (think "Godwin Park Houston"). I threw those at next.ddg and the result back were very good. I don't see having to !g a query for these in future. I'll edit as I use the beta in the next few days but first impressi…
Cool! We always received a fair amount of feedback about better local search and the redesign attempts to plug a few holes. Any feedback would be great; we're just getting started!
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#23This is fantastic. I already had DDG as my search engine, this just takes it to the next level. I'll be looking forward to the full release. Kudos!
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just tried it out. Wanted to find "phpng" that was released just now. Search returns results for "phong" and no way to force it to use the term phpng. Otherwise, it looks good and works as well as the other "older" one. Good job.
You can put quotes around phpng to force DDG to search that word. Though this should only be a temporary fix until the real problem is fixed.
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#25Hi all, thanks for checking it out and we're looking forward to your feedback! This next version of DuckDuckGo is in public beta. Here's the post about it I just made: https://duck.co/forum/thread/5726/duckduckgo-reimagined-and-... There are still a lot known issues that we're still working through before we can make the transition. I'm sure this thread will uncover more :)
I just tried it out. Wanted to find "phpng" that was released just now. Search returns results for "phong" and no way to force it to use the term phpng. Otherwise, it looks good and works as well as the other "older" one. Good job.
I don't know what you mean by 'released'. If we're talking about the same thing, it's a) a single mailing list thread and b) a wiki page, which google finds.
But as another check just revealed, DDG does not seem to index php.net very much, cf. https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=string+inurl%3Aphp.net
It also does not find any php related content for my real name, whereas google does, a lot.
Edit: my bad, it seems to be site: and not inurl:
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#26I just recently switched to duckduckgo and I wasn't a fan of the search results UI (spent a lot of time in settings) but this looks beautiful!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like a little better code and programming related search. For anything related to code-search I have to switch to Google at this point.
Would love some specific examples we can take a look at. We're working on many programming related instant answers, e.g. https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=nginx+vs+apache & https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=perl+split
In my experience, the problem with code searches is the extra work you have to go to to force a precise search. The above example of phpng, for example. I'm totally fine with being told I might find more results with a slightly different search, but it's infuriating to not at least be given the benefit of the doubt that I know what I actually want.
Unlike the GP, this bothers me about google as well, though.
Re: The next version of DuckDuckGo
#28Hi all, thanks for checking it out and we're looking forward to your feedback! This next version of DuckDuckGo is in public beta. Here's the post about it I just made: https://duck.co/forum/thread/5726/duckduckgo-reimagined-and-... There are still a lot known issues that we're still working through before we can make the transition. I'm sure this thread will uncover more :)
It's looking great! My only gripe is the lack of contrast in the results. I find it a bit harder to parse than before.
The image and video showcase is well thought out. It is digestible and smooth complement to the general search, well done!
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#29In general, it looks really good.
- I'd like some more focus on keyboard navigation. Make sure that everything looks good when tabbing, even if you've used arrow keys first.
- Anti-phishing: A long domain name will trim the end in the "More from ..." link. Instead it would make sense to trim the beginning.
- Needs better contrast.
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#30I've always wondered. How do these guys hit google search so much without hitting limitations? Google is pretty aggressive at banning bots, and I can't imagine Google have given a competitor API access or something like that. Proxies is out of the question for this scale too.
I'm fairly certain that they do not proxy searches to Google.
I heave heard that they do use Bing and Yahoo search APIs, but this could be incorrect.