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Thanks for that post, I didn't know Qwerly, that might come handy. I wonder how DuckDuckGo decides which API to query. Gabriel, could you shed some light on th
by danielh 16y ago
Thanks for that post, I didn't know Qwerly, that might come handy.
I wonder how DuckDuckGo decides which API to query. Gabriel, could you shed some light on this?
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoGenerally we have some kind of entity detection, be it a list or some regex or something more fuzzy. For example, check out the WolframAlpha stuff: http://weinbergalpha.com/ http://weinbergalpha.com/
- danielh 16y agoInteresting, thanks! One suggestion: I would move the note You can test regexp using DuckDuckGo further to the top. IMHO that's a killer feature!
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThat page (http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html) needs a lot of work, generally. I don't have the greatest UI ideas for it yet, but as you might imagine, different things interest different people.
- lionheart 16y agoThat's great. What's your algorithm for deciding which zero-click info to display when there seem to be multiple options? For example, I notice that http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fathers+day+2011 http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fathers+day+2011 doesn't show a WolframAlpha result, but an Amazon result for me.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThere is a precedence list that can be tweaked per query, and Amazon is at the bottom, so that is a bug :). In some cases, multiple things are called and the first to answer gets the spot. Edit: bug fixed.
- maxniederhofer 16y agoIf any HN users want to chat about integrating Qwerly, I'm the founder and available at max@qwerly.com. API is here: http://dev.qwerly.com/ http://dev.qwerly.com/.