DuckDuckGo as a TTY • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#81

Post by max0563 » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 2:36 PM UTC

mattfrommars wrote: post #80

Does anyone know end game for DuckDuckGo? Are they waiting to be acquired or hoping they will replace Google at what they do best? I want to use DDG but it just doesn't cut it for regular use.

That is what I thought too when I first started using them. "They just aren't as good as Google!". I have found this to not be the case as often as I thought it would be. In fact, 90% of my searches I'd say never require me to leave Duck Duck Go to find the answer, that includes technical queries.

That isn't to say that DDG is perfect, but for the times that it isn't perfect tacking an !g or !b to the end of the search does the job.

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#82

Post by gauchojs » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC

First test:

    $ 6km in miles
    [:1] [object Object]

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#83

Post by thinkingemote » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 2:41 PM UTC

mattfrommars wrote: post #80

Does anyone know end game for DuckDuckGo? Are they waiting to be acquired or hoping they will replace Google at what they do best? I want to use DDG but it just doesn't cut it for regular use.

I find they absolutely cut it for regular use, it's the irregular, special times where it doesn't but then I have to use the g! Operator

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#84

Post by muthdra » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 3:09 PM UTC

user3939382 wrote: post #55

RileyJames wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are both awesome. Are there any options to combine the two?

Maybe use the latter with !g

I wonder how bash would handle that.

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#85

Post by cyberbanjo » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 3:16 PM UTC

muthdra wrote: post #84

user3939382 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe use the latter with !g

I wonder how bash would handle that.

gotta quote to prevent shell expansion for bang iirc

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#86

Post by AccountToUse » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 3:24 PM UTC

fifilura wrote: post #66

I searched for "DROP TABLE search_index" and then after that everything stopped working. Did anyone else experience the same?

Yes, saw that too. Functionality is really limited. It's basically a Wikipedia command line parser. For instance, "current weather in Los Angeles" brings up nothing. "Current president of the USA" brings up nothing. But 2020 World Series Champion brings up a Wikipedia style summary.

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#87

Post by ziddoap » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 4:37 PM UTC

throwaway984393 wrote: post #17

They were able to create a fake TTY for searching the web, but they still don't support IPv6. https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/search/?q=ipv6&restrict_...

False equivalences are fun.

While both are technical issues, these are orders of magnitude apart in implementation difficulty, scale, etc. There is no reasonable comparison to be made here.

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#88

Post by RileyJames » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 8:00 PM UTC

user3939382 wrote: post #55

RileyJames wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are both awesome. Are there any options to combine the two?

Maybe use the latter with !g

Oh, I guess I should be more specific. I want the results from both intertwined.

The top 5 of each, to make a top 10 (deduped).

For dev work I think this would be best.

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

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Post by xojoc » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 9:21 PM UTC

Other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383443 [2019-10-29] (80 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880240 [2012-12-06] (100 comments)

All discussions: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/duckduckgo.com/tty/

Discussions with similar title: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/DuckDuckGo%20as%20a%20TTY

Archive: https://archive.md/newest/https://duckduckgo.com/tty/

Re: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

#90

Post by anthk » Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

divbzero wrote: post #41

divbzero wrote: post #38

I was hoping for something like: ssh duckduckgo.com grep -r foo news.ycombinator.com

The closest thing I could get working for real was: curl -s -X POST https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -d 'q=foo+site:news.ycombinator.com' | grep 'rel="nofollow"'

Ge surfraw.