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Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.
I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..
That way you don't need to search through google, you can search directly. Works with most search boxes.
I'm confused, if this is a search engine, where are all the ads?
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Try open sourcing it before it gets unshitty. I'm trying it myself, just putting things out there and saying "to hell with it" because, ultimately, unshitifying things is Zeno's paradox kind of work; you're never really done. And, really, it's probably better than you think anyway.
The urge to move his tags from under the tags is killing me D:
Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.
I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..
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Yeah. After I 'unshitify' a bit of it.
Try open sourcing it before it gets unshitty. I'm trying it myself, just putting things out there and saying "to hell with it" because, ultimately, unshitifying things is Zeno's paradox kind of work; you're never really done. And, really, it's probably better than you think anyway.
The website isn't meant to be used for any real utility. What I wanted to demonstrate was just an alternate way to look at search. I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?
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I thought I was the only one who does this. There should be an easier way..
I used to append "wiki" to >90% of my searches as well. Finally got in the habit of using DuckDuckGo bang syntax now. w!
In Firefox you go to the wikipedia page, right click on the search text box, then "Add Keyword for this Search". In Chrome, you do the same thing, right click on that search box and then click "Add as Search Engine".
You can add whatever keyword you want, like "w" and from then on, all searches with "w " as a prefix will go straight to Wikipedia's results.
I have shortcuts defined for Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, Amazon.com, IMDB, a dictionary for my native language, my personal Gmail, my work Gmail, Google Translate and Hacker News.
For instance for Hacker News, I often want to search for articles I've read here, not to mention it's a valuable resource for getting other people's opinions on certain subjects. So instead of searching on Google for:
some topic site:news.ycombinator.com
For Google Translate, I basically type "enro phrase", for translating "phrase" from English to Romanian, while I type "roen phrase" for translating "phrase" from Romanian to English.
Can DuckDuckGo do that?
Otherwise, very good work. I was suprised it can even do simple sentence-search.
How did you make this, what is the backend?