Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
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Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#2What causes this?
Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#3What causes this?
I have no idea, but equally curious.
Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#4For that query, the Chrome developer tools console spits an error like so:
>d.7527c434450544045365.js:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /^(https?://)?([\w\.-_]*\.)?notepad++\./: Nothing to repeat (at
Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#5Seems to happen with any query containing "otepad".
Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#6Seems to happen with any query containing "otepad".
Unless you type in something like Windows Notepad or paper notepad, which does return results.
Strange, very strange.
Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#7Using POST, HTTP/1.0 and lite.duckduckgo.com, with no Javascript of course, I got results. Not suggesting any of those are requirements. I'm just reporting that the no results experience is not universal.
Here is the first page of results:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
https://onlinenotepad.org/notepad
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9MSMLRH6LZF3?hl=en-us&gl=US
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.5/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepadplusplus.mirror/
https://notepad.js.org/
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.1.9.3/
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.1/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help-in-notepad-4d68c388-2ff2-0e7f-b706-35fb2ab88a8c
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/2010-notepad.html
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus
https://www.onlinenotepad.io/
https://anotepad.com/
https://www.howtogeek.com/902619/open-notepad-in-windows/
https://notepad.plus/
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/start-notepad-windows/
https://notepad.uptodown.com/windows
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/notepad
http://www.my-notepad.net/
https://notepad.id.uptodown.com/windows
https://notepad-classic-windows-10.en.softonic.com/
Below is a quick script for DuckDuckGo searching, if only want first page of results. yy025 makes HTTP from URLs. yy046 URL-encodes input, e.g., "+" to %2B. The address 127.22.10.55 is a TLS forward proxy. usage: echo query string|1.sh > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
links -no-connect ./1.htm
#!/bin/sh
h=duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion
h=lite.duckduckgo.com
read x;
x=q=$(echo "$x"|yy046);
export httpMethod=POST;
export Content_Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded;
export Content_Length=${#x};
export httpVersion=1.0;
export Connection=close;
echo https://$h/lite/|yy025|if sed w/dev/stderr;then
echo $x;echo $x >&2;fi \
|socat stdio,ignoreeof tcp:127.22.10.55:80Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#8Seems to happen with any query containing "otepad".
As does "tepad" though "epad" does return results.
Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#9What causes this?
They used to have this thing where developers could build Instant Answers through a program called DuckDuckHack.
It would load a carousel at the top with results for like jobs, recipes, etc.
It used regex to match the search query. Looks like they have a bad one.
Re: Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results
#10For that query, the Chrome developer tools console spits an error like so: >d.7527c434450544045365.js:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /^(https?://)?([\w\.-_]*\.)?notepad++\./: Nothing to repeat (at
Was someone trying to be funny, to change a "notepad" search for "notepad++", forgetting that + has a specific meaning in regex? Same error occurs with a search for "notepad++", though, but not "notepad+", funnily enough.