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Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by dljsjr »

blueblob wrote: post #47
Spittie wrote: post #31

That's awesome! I've been using the beta for a while and it's been much better than the old site. A bunch of ideas/complains: - It's awesome that you're showing me a nice map when I search for places/address, but let's be honest, I'll probably need to load it into an online map (OSM, MapQuest, Google Maps) to get directions. So a "open in map" button would be great (yes, I can copy/paste the address and !bang it, but…

So the maps did work for you? I looked up a few places just to test it out and most of them were not found or not identified as places. I am living in New Hampshire, so perhaps they just haven't done much with NH addresses yet. I love duckduckgo and I am glad that they are making improvements but I currently can't use the map feature reliably.

I found that for the maps to work you have to be really specific. Which I would say is a knock.

For example, a local bar here where I live is called Old Hickory Whiskey Bar. If I search for "Old Hickory ", I get a bunch of pictures of houses, but if I search for "Old Hickory Whiskey Bar ", I get a map result.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by malnourish »

peutichat wrote: post #79
Spittie wrote: post #31

That's awesome! I've been using the beta for a while and it's been much better than the old site. A bunch of ideas/complains: - It's awesome that you're showing me a nice map when I search for places/address, but let's be honest, I'll probably need to load it into an online map (OSM, MapQuest, Google Maps) to get directions. So a "open in map" button would be great (yes, I can copy/paste the address and !bang it, but…

Hey guys, if you're looking for an alternative search engine with a different flavor, we came up with a discovery search engine that allow you to preview results before getting there and overall an upgraded user experience. oh We're in the process of going https and we don't track your search as well;-) Your feedback would be very helpful. This way: http://www.psykoo.com

I'm sorry but this is pure spam in this context. I think it would be far more prudent to submit this as its own post.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by Walkman »

Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example:

The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly.

On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his picture is there, great.

On DuckDuckGo [2] the picture is not even close, and the first couple of results are not as useful as on Google [1].

I think it is a mistake to concentrate on clean design on a search engine until the searching algorithm is not that good. AFAIK Google's page ranking algorithm is well known, when I were in university I even heard stories that a student (going on the same class as me) reproduced the algorithms only on his own!

TL;DR: I want to search relevant information with a search engine, not to look some nice webpage.

[1]: https://www.google.hu/search?q=Baptiste+Mispelon

[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Baptiste+Mispelon

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by malnourish »

shawnz wrote: post #76
mike-cardwell wrote: post #64

I use d to select the text in my address bar. If I am on a duckduckgo search results page, it seems this keyboard combination is intercepted and I'm bounced off to one of the results (well, the 'd' on it's own does this too). I can also use l, but I've gotten use to using d. [edit] I have bug reported this. They have a very good feedback system on their website.

There's also "F6", which is just a single key. Maybe that will be easier to get used to.

There's also ^L, a chord which I find much easier to type than reaching up three rows to an F key (especially with my caps lock mapped to control).

Regardless, he shouldn't have to change his shortcut because a website (a search engine, no less) hijacks his keys. That's bad UX.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by malnourish »

orrsella wrote: post #50

Interesting to see that many of their "whatsnew" examples use Yandex[1]. Is that a new partnership? [1] http://imgur.com/3tBrS7h

Nice catch -- this is interesting.

Has Yandex ever had any privacy concerns? How did this partnership come about?

Why is DDG leveraging Yandex?

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by okbake »

I think I found a bug. I'm using the dark theme and customizing the colors. If I set my background color to #000001, all of my text will turn blue (#0202FF).

Also, setting the Header option to Off is the same as On With Scrolling. This is on ff29.

Other than that, I think I'm finally switching over to ddg.

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by lazyjones »

Looks good, but they really need to weed out some spammy websites from their index.

For example, all the .stats.com sites that try to get traffic when people search for various brands, or this strange one: -login" rel="nofollow">http://www.loginto.org/-login (apparently it tries to steal login credentials, or I don't see the point).

Re: New DuckDuckGo design

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Post by peutichat »

malnourish wrote: post #82
peutichat wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey guys, if you're looking for an alternative search engine with a different flavor, we came up with a discovery search engine that allow you to preview results before getting there and overall an upgraded user experience. oh We're in the process of going https and we don't track your search as well;-) Your feedback would be very helpful. This way: http://www.psykoo.com

I'm sorry but this is pure spam in this context. I think it would be far more prudent to submit this as its own post.

Come on, DDG is not storing datas, neither do we. This was a good feedback and we're looking for more? Beside you know how hard it is to get just a fraction of attention from the community unless you game the stats... Thanks for downvote :-S
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