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I also switched to DDG at the prompting of an HN commenter, and agree entirely with the points made in the OP. The only downside really is just in the formatti
by frossie 16y ago
I also switched to DDG at the prompting of an HN commenter, and agree entirely with the points made in the OP.
The only downside really is just in the formatting of the results - I can get 11-12 results in a google search in a full-height window and about 8 in DDG. Sure, some of that is due to the very nice "disambiguator" box (or whetever they call it), and the results are indeed generally higher quality, but it is also due to large title fonts and designey white space, so I personally would like a bit of that back.
(No I haven't sent this to DDG feedback because for all I know it is a personal peeve and everybody else likes it this way)
- edanm 16y ago"(No I haven't sent this to DDG feedback because for all I know it is a personal peeve and everybody else likes it this way)" The way I see it, Gabriel's job is to decide whether it's a personal peeve or not. Your job is to ask for new features and "complain" about the old features, so that he can hear what real users think.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoYes, please complain (although be nice about it) :) The design is continually in flux based on user feedback, but recently I've been stepping back to take a more holistic approach and really push it forward. I will be working with a professional designer on this and the duck.co community (if anyone wants to participate). I hope this will become evident (and useful) within a few months from now. So by all means, give design feedback!
- BCM43 16y agoYou can change the font size in the settings, if you have not already done so.
- antirez 16y agoyep this is the first thing I did, it fixes part of the problem, but the generated page is still "hard to scan". It's a shame as it is a not so hard problem to solve. It should just copy the search result google had in the early days :)