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DuckDuckGo: New Features from a Stronger Yahoo Partnership

28 points by asb 10y ago

jbmorgado 10y ago
Why not last year? They don't have data for it? This is the only reason I still have to go back to Google a lot. When I'm searching for some programming language help/tutorial, I mostly use the last year (!gyear in DuckDuckGo to take you to google with 1 year search), since I don't want to be seeing how to do implement something for my app in Android 1.6 or Python 2.0 (for instance).
- emdd 10y ago
  I use "last year" filters all the time with Google (via !g bangs), this !gyear is awesome. Thanks. TIL.
- neurobuddha 10y ago
  I didn't know about !gyear. Thanks for sharing. I have a blog dedicated to testing Duck Duck Go bangs (some are broken) and showcase the best ones: http://duckgobang.com/ http://duckgobang.com/
JimWestergren 10y ago
According to https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation they are using duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net to make these calls. That subdomain seems to have a CNAME to results.duckduckgo.com which in turn has a CNAME to duckduckgo.com. Could they not have used yahoo.duckduckgo.com instead? Yahoo owns and controls the DNS of yahoo.net - the DNS settings for duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net could be changed anytime by Yahoo - is that correct?
- breakingcups 10y ago
  It says in the post that "To get access to the most relevant Yahoo technology, due to contractual obligations that call has to be associated with a Yahoo domain, in this case, duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net." I'm curious about these contractual obligations. It seems Yahoo is making a lot of effort to ensure compatibility with DDG and its users, why insist on a trivial hostname matter?
  - JimWestergren 10y ago
    Ok, I see. Yes, trivial for Yahoo but a hassle for DDG that now has to deal with adblocking scripts, explaining and so forth. Strange.
    - qwertex 10y ago
      Is it possible that yahoo can detect how many users are using there service though this reqest?
touristtam 10y ago
Now if I could just filter out websites from my search result.....
nickpsecurity 10y ago
Here I am moving emails and stuff out of Yahoo due to it's impending doom. Then, I see a company announce a stronger partnership with them. Hard to say if it's a good thing or bad thing. Maybe good so long as they have backup option they can practically flip a switch on. Thought they were using Yandex. So they're probably fine.

28 points by asb 10y ago

Why not last year? They don't have data for it? This is the only reason I still have to go back to Google a lot. When I'm searching for some programming language help/tutorial, I mostly use the last year (!gyear in DuckDuckGo to take you to google with 1 year search), since I don't want to be seeing how to do implement something for my app in Android 1.6 or Python 2.0 (for instance).

emdd 10y ago
I use "last year" filters all the time with Google (via !g bangs), this !gyear is awesome. Thanks. TIL.
neurobuddha 10y ago
I didn't know about !gyear. Thanks for sharing. I have a blog dedicated to testing Duck Duck Go bangs (some are broken) and showcase the best ones: http://duckgobang.com/ http://duckgobang.com/

JimWestergren 10y ago

According to https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation they are using duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net to make these calls. That subdomain seems to have a CNAME to results.duckduckgo.com which in turn has a CNAME to duckduckgo.com. Could they not have used yahoo.duckduckgo.com instead? Yahoo owns and controls the DNS of yahoo.net - the DNS settings for duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net could be changed anytime by Yahoo - is that correct?

breakingcups 10y ago
It says in the post that "To get access to the most relevant Yahoo technology, due to contractual obligations that call has to be associated with a Yahoo domain, in this case, duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net." I'm curious about these contractual obligations. It seems Yahoo is making a lot of effort to ensure compatibility with DDG and its users, why insist on a trivial hostname matter?
- JimWestergren 10y ago
  Ok, I see. Yes, trivial for Yahoo but a hassle for DDG that now has to deal with adblocking scripts, explaining and so forth. Strange.
  - qwertex 10y ago
    Is it possible that yahoo can detect how many users are using there service though this reqest?

touristtam 10y ago

Now if I could just filter out websites from my search result.....

nickpsecurity 10y ago

Here I am moving emails and stuff out of Yahoo due to it's impending doom. Then, I see a company announce a stronger partnership with them. Hard to say if it's a good thing or bad thing. Maybe good so long as they have backup option they can practically flip a switch on. Thought they were using Yandex. So they're probably fine.