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Just last Friday, I was pleasantly surprised to find Duck Duck Go is the only search engine (of those I tried) that shows me a hex color when I search it, e.g.
by alanh 16y ago
Just last Friday, I was pleasantly surprised to find Duck Duck Go is the only search engine (of those I tried) that shows me a hex color when I search it, e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%23004499 http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%23004499
And not long before, I searched for my oldest still-surviving site (on Angelfire). I discovered that while Google returned 20 garbage sites, they didn’t include mine; my site was the only one DDG returned.
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- ajkirwin 16y agoJesus christ that's horrible (the hex color thing). It looks so NASTY.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoThe balance is between offering a cool feature and the danger that all those features accrete into cruft. If you wanted something similar for Google, you can create your own "Subscribed Link" to do this: http://www.google.com/coop/subscribedlinks/ http://www.google.com/coop/subscribedlinks/ I've created a subscribed links to mimic the UNIX cal command, for example: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/add-calendar-shortcut-to-google/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/add-calendar-shortcut-to-googl...
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoIt's a case by case thing. In this case, the query space is pretty segmented to avoid cruft.