Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by bjplink » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:24 PM UTC

Introducing DuckDuckHack
gabrielweinberg.com

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by blairbits » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:31 PM UTC

This seems to me to be a great example of hour DDG can gain an edge on Google. I don't think you'll ever see Google offering something like this; they're too big. A smaller option like DDG has more room to grow, and can take advantage of the crowd like this in ways that Google can't.

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by SeoxyS » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:34 PM UTC

This is begging to be renamed "HackHackGo." Has such a nice ring to it!

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:39 PM UTC

SeoxyS wrote: post #3

This is begging to be renamed "HackHackGo." Has such a nice ring to it!

Haha, you'll notice hackhackgo.com redirects to the same place :). We had a large internal debate about the name and it came down to these two, with hacksear.ch in third.

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by heyrhett » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:44 PM UTC

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #4

SeoxyS wrote: post #3

This is begging to be renamed "HackHackGo." Has such a nice ring to it!

Haha, you'll notice hackhackgo.com redirects to the same place :). We had a large internal debate about the name and it came down to these two, with hacksear.ch in third.

+1 "DuckDuckHack"

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by sasha-dv » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

DDG is getting better all the time. These days, I use it almost exclusively. I love the !bang syntax.

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by Adaptive » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

This is like Google Labs turned inside out. Innovative stuff. I love it. More power to DDG!

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by evoxed » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:48 PM UTC

Switching my default search in 3..2..1..

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by fraserharris » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:50 PM UTC

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #4

SeoxyS wrote: post #3

This is begging to be renamed "HackHackGo." Has such a nice ring to it!

Haha, you'll notice hackhackgo.com redirects to the same place :). We had a large internal debate about the name and it came down to these two, with hacksear.ch in third.

You compared this to Firefox Add-ons. Does that mean that these won't be integrated into DDG natively? Will that only be at your discretion?

Re: Introducing DuckDuckHack

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Post by ImJasonH » Tue, May 01, 2012, 5:50 PM UTC

blairbits wrote: post #2

This seems to me to be a great example of hour DDG can gain an edge on Google. I don't think you'll ever see Google offering something like this; they're too big. A smaller option like DDG has more room to grow, and can take advantage of the crowd like this in ways that Google can't.

Google offered something very similar to this a few years ago: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-search-add-o...

Sadly it seems to no longer be supported.