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Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

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Post by buddydvd »

jampa wrote: post #12

It seems that anything that returns "++" (EDIT: in the "About" box), in this case "Notepad++", breaks their internal regex because it seems not to be sanitized properly The breaking code using chrome dev tools seems to be: n = new RegExp("^(https?://)?([\\w\\.-_] \\.)?" + o.toLowerCase().replace(/[-\s]/g, "") + "\\."); In this case "o" is "Notepad++" which might be the first result. The browser returns this error: In…

The part of regex

    [\w\.-_]
should really be

    [\w\.\-_]
instead.

But not that's not what caused the problem mentioned in this post.

(edited for clairifcation)

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

#32

Post by marginalia_nu »

yegg wrote: post #25

Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today -- it is triggering a JS error. We're looking into it now and should have it resolved soon. UPDATE: this should be fixed now.

I feel like the crowd of e-rubberneckers that gathered here made it seem like a bigger bug than it was...

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

#33

Post by yegg »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #27
yegg wrote: post #25

Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today -- it is triggering a JS error. We're looking into it now and should have it resolved soon. UPDATE: this should be fixed now.

Fixed for me (UK), would be interesting to hear what the error was. I did so love the time when you were developing DDG and posting to HN about your progress and getting suggestions from the community and whatnot. So glad it worked out for you.

Thanks! It was a regex error.

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

#34

Post by Gerard0 »

yegg wrote: post #25

Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today -- it is triggering a JS error. We're looking into it now and should have it resolved soon. UPDATE: this should be fixed now.

Hello! Why has DDG gotten so worse lately? I thought it was just me but I keep reading the same experience on HN. There is no way you don't know about this?

Asking as a long time user and at a time even DDG evangelist.

Cheers!

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

#35

Post by Brian_K_White »

Gerard0 wrote: post #34
yegg wrote: post #25

Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today -- it is triggering a JS error. We're looking into it now and should have it resolved soon. UPDATE: this should be fixed now.

Hello! Why has DDG gotten so worse lately? I thought it was just me but I keep reading the same experience on HN. There is no way you don't know about this? Asking as a long time user and at a time even DDG evangelist. Cheers!

I signed up for Kagi finally. Still figuring out if it's worth it, but the more important thing is that I was moved to even consider it and do it.

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

#36

Post by toastercat »

Unrelated to this issue, but I get peeved when HN commenters rave how DuckDuckGo results are far superior to Google's, and yet the other day I entered "DuckDNS" on DDG, and it was nowhere to be scene in the top 3 pages. Meanwhile on Google and Brave Search, it is the first result.

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

#38

Post by throwitaway156 »

yegg wrote: post #33
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fixed for me (UK), would be interesting to hear what the error was. I did so love the time when you were developing DDG and posting to HN about your progress and getting suggestions from the community and whatnot. So glad it worked out for you.

Thanks! It was a regex error.

Similarly to DNS, its always regex.

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

#39

Post by kiicia »

vikingerik wrote: post #26
jampa wrote: post #12

It seems that anything that returns "++" (EDIT: in the "About" box), in this case "Notepad++", breaks their internal regex because it seems not to be sanitized properly The breaking code using chrome dev tools seems to be: n = new RegExp("^(https?://)?([\\w\\.-_] \\.)?" + o.toLowerCase().replace(/[-\s]/g, "") + "\\."); In this case "o" is "Notepad++" which might be the first result. The browser returns this error: In…

Speaking of control characters breaking things, HN ate the * characters in your post and turned the text into italics instead.

its because of markdown formatting

Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

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Post by WeylandYutani »

nipperkinfeet wrote: post #37

I feel like Google has the same issue. Nowadays, searching for anything on Google yields between 3 and 17 results. Few years ago, I received millions of results for the same searches.

Notepad++ search yield: About 26.000.000 results (0,33 seconds)
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