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Good idea but I think that wouldn't be practically possible. We redirect you to third-party sites but we don't know what the first results on those sites are.
by tagawa 10y ago
Good idea but I think that wouldn't be practically possible. We redirect you to third-party sites but we don't know what the first results on those sites are.
Technically I suppose it's possible to "scrape ahead" and get the top result in the background before redirecting the user, but some sites change search results based on your profile/behaviour so it could be inaccurate. It may also be against those sites' terms and conditions.
- losingkeys 10y agoWhat about sort of appending site:GitHub.com and going to the first result there? Not always the first result you'd see, but it might work okay.
- tagawa 10y agoNow that's an interesting idea. It's already possible using the `\` trigger, e.g.: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=\getusermedia+site%3Astackoverflow.com https://duckduckgo.com/?q=\getusermedia+site%3Astackoverflow... but a short syntax such as `\!so getusermedia` is a potential alternative. I'll suggest it to the team.
- arm 10y agoAh, now I see why that was happening to me in the past. I was doing a search to find out about a command in some program that began with a backslash (a search query like: \COMMANDNAME), and was wondering why I kept being redirected to some random website.
- tagawa 10y agoAhem, sorry about that! That's our "I'm feeling ducky" trigger: https://duck.co/help/results/syntax https://duck.co/help/results/syntax
- JasonSage 10y agoI agree it's not something that could be practically possible. I think I'd hate if it worked for some bangs but not all, so I'm content with just having to do an extra click.