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The idea is great, the results seem a little minimal so far, "Mandarin Chinese" produced one result, "Arduino" was a bit better, "knot tying" was a null result.
by blacksmith_tb 9y ago
The idea is great, the results seem a little minimal so far, "Mandarin Chinese" produced one result, "Arduino" was a bit better, "knot tying" was a null result. There's a lot of info on contributing which is great, but the process is not what I'd call easy - I'd think especially on searches that return nil it'd be good to throw up some kind of form, and ask the user if they wouldn't mind clicking through to the DDG results, looking at a few of the top hits, and then pasting in what they found to be the most helpful?
- nikivi 9y agoThe idea is that each map is open for contributions so all maps can be improved with the help of the community. Right now new things can be added by adding things directly to the JSON code that generates these maps but soon we will have a visual editor to simply this process even further. And we provide a fallback search to DuckDuckGo in cases where no map is found for what you are searching for. We are also thinking of releasing a browser extension that will do what you proposed. You collect links from outside and then come back to our search engine and help improve it.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoBoth of those approaches sound very much easier for people to make submissions, good to hear.
- rhizome 9y agoThe idea is that each map is open for contributions so all maps can be improved with the help of the community. Right now new things can be added by adding things directly to... Like DMOZ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ