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DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoHere is the Wolfram|Alpha announcement: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/04/18/wolframalpha-and-duckduckgo-partner-on-api-binding-and-search-integration/ http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/04/18/wolframalpha-and-duc...
- slay2k 16y agoAwesome job. Ignore the haters.
- KaeseEs 16y agoDDG has haters?
- kgermino 16y agoScroll down. Or don't, your not really missing anything by skipping that thread.
- sorbus 16y agoThere don't appear to be any DDG haters in the threads on this article. There are two people who seem to hate (or at least dislike) Stephen Wolfram, though. (Disclaimers: I have showdead on, this is accurate as of 9:31 PM, GMT).
- kgermino 16y agoI read it as haters of the deal rather than haters of DDG. For example, thebooktocome made a comment saying that (s)he was done with DDG because of the deal. Sorry if it was confusing.
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- davidw 16y agoDid you get to meet Mr Wolfram? Doesn't look like it from the vibe I get from that, but who knows.
- thebooktocome 16y agoThere goes my support for DuckDuckGo.
- eli 16y agoErr.. why?
- spitfire 16y agoHave you met Stephen Wolfram? He makes Donald Trump look humble.
- hvs 16y agoA major corporation with an arrogant CEO? Imagine that.
- jayzee 16y agoA major corporation with an arrogant CEO who received a Ph.D. in particle physics from the California Institute of Technology at age 20,joined the faculty there, and received one of the first MacArthur awards in 1981, at age 21. Lets cut him some slack for being awesome. -- from wikipedia
- hugh3 16y agoHe is, nonetheless, considered insufferably arrogant even by the standards of other geniuses (and CEOs). Does any of this matter for his products? Naah. Mathematica and Alpha are good, and as for A New Kind Of Science... well, I doubt I'll ever bother to read enough of it to find out.
- joshu 16y agoI spent two hours chatting with him at a conference recently. I did not experience any arrogance, insufferable or otherwise.
- ck2 16y agoHaven't tried them in awhile - I must say the ui/results are much better than all my previous experiences - is it wrong that I really miss the estimated results at the top of searches? Also, they need to disregard the Wolfram result when it's useless: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=population+of+nyc+in+2020 http://duckduckgo.com/?q=population+of+nyc+in+2020
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThx -- will do.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoUpdate: fixed.
- MatthewPhillips 16y agoThe founder of the 3rd or 4th biggest English search engine responding to and fixing issues from a HN thread. Awesome. switches to DDG
- Indyan 16y agoThat is major motivator for using DDG. If you find something wrong, just tweet it (or somehow convey it to Gabriel), and he be on top of it in no time.
- NovaDesu 16y agoJust wait till it gets bigger and he's unable to answer them
- fooandbarify 16y agoAgreed. My first search will be how to switch the default search engine in Safari...
- sskates 16y agoThat's pretty cool that you guys negotiated this and they were reasonable.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThey seem to generally take a very long-term view of things and are very reasonable.
- wcchandler 16y agoCongrats! I remember when WolframAlpha tried getting DuckDuckGo's app off the app store for linking to them... Glad to see them playing nice, now.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThat wasn't us actually :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271580 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271580
- markbnine 16y agoDuckDuckWolf?
- rguzman 16y agoDuckWolfGo
- katovatzschyn 16y agoIs there a name for the Duck Duck Go duck? If not, I find "Newton" would be rather apt.
- frossie 16y agoIs there a need to name him/her? I find myself saying "I'll ask The Duck" as the equivalent of "I'll google it". I don't feel I need to get more personal than that :-)
- HannoverFiste 16y agoUsers of the up-and-coming search site DuckDuckGo know that the site is unique because it doesn’t track history, contains less spam, features a cute bow tie-wearing duck, and provides zero-click information that immediately pops up under the search box. -- from Wolfram|Alpha announcement Do not underestimate the bow tie-wearing duck feature. I'm sure Bing and Yahoo knockoffs are around the corner.
- helwr 16y agovery nice: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=x^2 http://duckduckgo.com/?q=x^2
- sinaiman 16y agoGreat news, my suggestion: ditch the "time calculated" info on Wolfram results. I personally don't care that something was "Computed by Wolfram|Alpha at Mon Apr 18 2011 19:31:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)" Just "Computed by Wolfram|Alpha" would suffice
- JoelMcCracken 16y agoI care, if its old. The knowing the age of data is very valuable when judging its relevance.
- shasta 16y agoIt's important so that you can know exactly when it goes into the public domain
- redthrowaway 16y agoInteresting, I hadn't considered that angle. Are all W|A results public domain?
- burgerbrain 16y agoI believe he means "so you know when it falls out of copyright".
- asmosoinio 16y ago
- cft 16y agoIf you look at the traffic stats for WolframAlpha, it has the highest rank in Nigeria: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wolframalpha.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wolframalpha.com I find this interesting.
- aw3c2 16y agoThird-party visitor statistics say nothing about the actual audience of a website.
- nosignal 16y agoThis is potentially really good news. I've always loved the concept of W|A but hated the implementation. While very good at answering specific queries, it's no good at incidental or exploratory knowledge discovery - it's kind of out of the way, a little on the slow side, but most importantly it doesn't link externally (or even internally). I get the vibe that the W|A crew have an excellent idea and are doing an excellent job, but don't really "get it" when it comes to everyday usability. As they admit in their subtitle, they've built an engine, not a whole machine. On the other hand, usability is DDG's killer app as far as I'm concerned. The focus on ease of interpretation as well as interaction is really valuable. Simply having W|A's answer on the same page as a bunch of direct links to alternative sources is valuable enough. But if I get a bit excited, if the power of the vast knowledge & computational ability of W|A finds its human voice through DDG, it could start to bridge the gap between "search" and actual knowledge retrieval. It's one (good) thing to remove 1 click by showing a number relating to a simple query - it's another thing to remove 50 clicks and 45 minutes of research and assessment to establish the answer to a one-step-above-simple query. What I'd love to see as a start is for W|A to provide facts & figures against results returned through DDG. Eg. Search the web for "most popular travel destinations in europe", and be able to summon demographics, exchange rates, even trip prices for each result.
- suprgeek 16y agoThis is great news! I have just one request - please never sell out to Goog, Yahoo, or Bing. We need a clean independent alternative and DDG is it for me.