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I absolutely love those extensions. Another two I discovered by accident: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colorpicker https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colorpicker https://

by JepZ 8y ago

I absolutely love those extensions. Another two I discovered by accident: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colorpicker https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colorpicker https://duckduckgo.com/?q=calculator https://duckduckgo.com/?q=calculator I just hope the search result quality will improve over time as right now, I still use !g for about 10% of my searches.

ape4 8y ago
Those are neat but basically intercept traffic to websites that could easily do that sort of thing. Maybe a Hacker News user made a color picker as a side project. It would be monopolistic behavior when done by major companies.
- notjustanymike 8y ago
  Not really. Color picker is a native element of most browsers. Calculator is a CompSci 101 project. If you're counting on either for traffic, you need a better business model.
- JepZ 8y ago
  On the one hand I see the issue too, but on the other hand, it is very useful, and it looks like those tools are some kind of open source collaboration: https://duck.co/ia/view/color_picker https://duck.co/ia/view/color_picker I don't know who controls the contributions and decides what is going to be included in the final result, but so far it looks just fine to me. After all, they still present the normal search results below the tool.
- _jal 8y ago
  > It would be monopolistic behavior when done by major companies Right. And when done by non-monopolies, we call it "competition". What if I made a color picker that competes with your other HN-person-color-picker? How does that work? If my color picker gets a search engine feature, am I unfairly intercepting traffic from DDG?
- fileeditview 8y ago
  Probably said HN user should just make a better color picker then. One that provides something that others don't. It's nice to protect the little guy but in this case.. it's just too much.
- mellow-lake-day 8y ago
  Google also has a calculator and a color picker. If you want to be mad at someone taking traffic that would be Google since they have 1000x the volume of ddg.

by JepZ 8y ago

ape4 8y ago

Those are neat but basically intercept traffic to websites that could easily do that sort of thing. Maybe a Hacker News user made a color picker as a side project. It would be monopolistic behavior when done by major companies.

notjustanymike 8y ago
Not really. Color picker is a native element of most browsers. Calculator is a CompSci 101 project. If you're counting on either for traffic, you need a better business model.
JepZ 8y ago
On the one hand I see the issue too, but on the other hand, it is very useful, and it looks like those tools are some kind of open source collaboration: https://duck.co/ia/view/color_picker https://duck.co/ia/view/color_picker I don't know who controls the contributions and decides what is going to be included in the final result, but so far it looks just fine to me. After all, they still present the normal search results below the tool.
_jal 8y ago
> It would be monopolistic behavior when done by major companies Right. And when done by non-monopolies, we call it "competition". What if I made a color picker that competes with your other HN-person-color-picker? How does that work? If my color picker gets a search engine feature, am I unfairly intercepting traffic from DDG?
fileeditview 8y ago
Probably said HN user should just make a better color picker then. One that provides something that others don't. It's nice to protect the little guy but in this case.. it's just too much.
mellow-lake-day 8y ago
Google also has a calculator and a color picker. If you want to be mad at someone taking traffic that would be Google since they have 1000x the volume of ddg.