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Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by conradev »

reitzensteinm wrote: post #27

This is absolutely fantastic. I remember suggesting ages ago that Intel's ark.intel.com should be integrated, so if you searched for Q6600 or 2600k or i7 980 it would show you details of the processor. I might have a shot at integrating that. Does anyone know about the legality of doing so? I'm sure Intel wouldn't care, but showing the info in a zero click box would seem to be different than merely scraping the pages…

I actually want to do something similar, and integrate a search of ARM's website into DDG for quick reference to specific ARM assembly opcodes.

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by tantalor »

klapinat0r wrote: post #37

Slightly off topic, but can anyone elaborate on the legal handling of displaying the xkcd comics? As they are fetched directly from images.xkcd.com, and do not contain a "discussion", would it still be considered Fair Use, or have they made an agreement with Randall Munroe?

Their usage is noncommercial (no fee) and links through, so it satisfies CC BY-NC 2.5.

See http://xkcd.com/license.html

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by cnbeuiwx »

This is more about duckduckgo than duckduckhack, but Im starting to love this search engine. Found out about the "s:d" command that sorts all the hits in descending order.. combined with the arrow keys and the "h" key to get back to the search box, you can search a multitude of search terms reaally fast and efficiently.

And no spying on its users! Google, you can go f-ck yourself from now on.

I love this engine. Thanks so much for creating it!

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by epi0Bauqu »

cnbeuiwx wrote: post #43

This is more about duckduckgo than duckduckhack, but Im starting to love this search engine. Found out about the "s:d" command that sorts all the hits in descending order.. combined with the arrow keys and the "h" key to get back to the search box, you can search a multitude of search terms reaally fast and efficiently. And no spying on its users! Google, you can go f-ck yourself from now on. I love this engine. Than…

Thanks -- for the record, s:d is an internal plugin that currently calls Blekko.

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by driverdan »

Here are a few ideas that would be cool.

# hackernews / hn

"hn url" - See if a URL has been posted to HN. If so show the title and link to post + comments

"hn keywords" - Show HN search results with linked title and link to comments

hn could be an alias to hackernews.

# reddit

Reddit's native search sucks in every way possible. Add a reddit keyword with similar functionality.

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by mburshteyn »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #15
matt2000 wrote: post #11

I couldn't figure it out from the docs, do the plugins get approved by DuckDuckGo? Or does the user have to install them for their own account? I'm a bit confused at how you would mediate between different plugins trying to provide an answer for the same query, etc.

The plugins get approved by DuckDuckGo, and generally we work with people to make them good or round them out ourselves. In the future there may be a way to install them in addition (for say, the ones we aren't using for the whole site). We have a bit of an answer for conflicts on this in the FAQ: http://duckduckhack.com/#faq "What if there are plugin conflicts? The ultimate arbiter is the user, and that's the perspe…

It'd be great to let users download plugins. There might be small communities that do regular searches where certain instant answer hacks might not make sense to the vast majority of users.

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by [deleted] »

reitzensteinm wrote: post #27

This is absolutely fantastic. I remember suggesting ages ago that Intel's ark.intel.com should be integrated, so if you searched for Q6600 or 2600k or i7 980 it would show you details of the processor. I might have a shot at integrating that. Does anyone know about the legality of doing so? I'm sure Intel wouldn't care, but showing the info in a zero click box would seem to be different than merely scraping the pages…

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Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by shellox »

It's really cool that duckduckgo want to go this way. I think both, the creator of ddg and the users will profit of the ideas, which will come up in DuckDuckHack. The users know what they want, so it's the right choice to let them be part of it ;)

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by crazedpsyc »

mburshteyn wrote: post #46
epi0Bauqu wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The plugins get approved by DuckDuckGo, and generally we work with people to make them good or round them out ourselves. In the future there may be a way to install them in addition (for say, the ones we aren't using for the whole site). We have a bit of an answer for conflicts on this in the FAQ: http://duckduckhack.com/#faq "What if there are plugin conflicts? The ultimate arbiter is the user, and that's the perspe…

It'd be great to let users download plugins. There might be small communities that do regular searches where certain instant answer hacks might not make sense to the vast majority of users.

You can download plugins from github, but note that they are under GPL as far as I know. EDIT: Nope, perl5 license.
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