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This makes me think of an idea, I think it would be awesome if Duck Duck Go offered me the ability to make a "plugin" for their site. In much the same way you

This makes me think of an idea, I think it would be awesome if Duck Duck Go offered me the ability to make a "plugin" for their site. In much the same way you can pay for key words on google, i'd love to pay for a topic. For example, I've been working on a side project which gives you recipe ideas for ingredients you have. I built the technology in a very modular way, which would make the construction of a plugin pretty easy. I would like to purchase the idea of ingredients so say for example someone does a search for "celery carrots peas" the zero click box would show my results. In addition, I've noticed many people use Google for anything they want. My mom found her email by googling for "email" if the search terms ever change... she wouldn't know how to get to it. I would love to have it so if my mom already has an account on my site (which has a record of her kitchens inventory) she could search for "recipes" and in the zero click box would be a listing, but customized just for her.

epi0Bauqu 16y ago
I'd love to do plug-ins. The trouble is this initial filter step, i.e. I can't be sending all queries to all plugins for many reasons (privacy, resources, speed, etc.). But I'm very open to integrating vertical engine APIs where it makes sense, or linking to them directly. For example, last night I added links at the top based on this type of routing, e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+date+function http://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+date+function So if any one has any implementation ideas, I'm ready!
- clistctrl 16y ago
  Just an idea, instead of sending all queries to all plugins could you do a look up instead? Such as my example above, part of the process of registering a plugin might be specifying a keyword, and a identification function. So during the process of creating your zero click results you could check an index if any of the keywords have plugins associated with them. Once you have a narrow list of plugins then you could run through the list of plugins to see if the results are relevant.
  - epi0Bauqu 16y ago
    Yes, something like that could work, which is essentially what I'm doing here with WA (just in a bit more complicated fashion).
minalecs 16y ago
as a side note to you project check out http://www.yummly.com/ http://www.yummly.com/
naner 16y ago
That would quickly kill the value of the "zero click" box if it starts displaying info of wildly varying quality or stuff that seems spammy.

epi0Bauqu 16y ago

I'd love to do plug-ins. The trouble is this initial filter step, i.e. I can't be sending all queries to all plugins for many reasons (privacy, resources, speed, etc.). But I'm very open to integrating vertical engine APIs where it makes sense, or linking to them directly. For example, last night I added links at the top based on this type of routing, e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+date+function http://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+date+function So if any one has any implementation ideas, I'm ready!

clistctrl 16y ago
Just an idea, instead of sending all queries to all plugins could you do a look up instead? Such as my example above, part of the process of registering a plugin might be specifying a keyword, and a identification function. So during the process of creating your zero click results you could check an index if any of the keywords have plugins associated with them. Once you have a narrow list of plugins then you could run through the list of plugins to see if the results are relevant.
- epi0Bauqu 16y ago
  Yes, something like that could work, which is essentially what I'm doing here with WA (just in a bit more complicated fashion).

minalecs 16y ago

as a side note to you project check out http://www.yummly.com/ http://www.yummly.com/

naner 16y ago

That would quickly kill the value of the "zero click" box if it starts displaying info of wildly varying quality or stuff that seems spammy.