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I love DDG and I used it for 6 months but the problem I had is that when I was looking for things related to coding or Linux--it fell short. I would type in an

by joeblau 13y ago

I love DDG and I used it for 6 months but the problem I had is that when I was looking for things related to coding or Linux--it fell short. I would type in an error from Objective-c, Node.js, Java, JavaScript or Scala and nothing helpful would return. This forced me to return to Google which I ended up doing so often that I switched my default search engine back :(.

hkmurakami 13y ago
have you checked out some of the !bang options available? I just took a look and here is a sampling of what you have available. Sysadmin: !apache !awesome !bsd !chef !codeweavers !cookbook !cve !datasheet !distro !distrowatch !eventid !everymac !exex !exploitdb !filext !fsf !fsfe !funtoo !gdiag !gnomebugs !gnu !howtoforge (!htf) !ip !irp !iso !linode !linuxfr !linuxhcl !linuxmint !lxr !mysql !nginxwiki !openbsd !openbsdmisc !opensuse !oracle !osvdb !parabola !peppermintos !playterm !postgresql !psql !puppet !qth !salix !salixforums !sectube !senderbase !spice !splunk !sqlite !susebug !susepkg !technetlib !timestamp !tldp !trisquel !use !vmkb !vol !wog !zahe Sysadmin (debian): !debbug (!dbugs) !debian !debianforums !debianfr !debml !debmla !debwiki !dfiles !dman !dpackages (!dpkg !dpts) !dtag !fanch Sysadmin (FreeBSD): !bsdman !fports !freebsd !freshports !fxr Sysadmin (Gentoo): !gbugs !gentoo !gentoowiki !gpackages !gwiki Sysadmin (RedHat): !rbugs Sysadmin (Solaris): !sunpatch Sysadmin (Ubuntu): !askubuntu !docubu !docubufr !omgubuntu (!omgu) !ppa !puc !ubottu !ubuntuforums (!ubuntuf) !ubuntuusers !uman !upackages !upkg !uu !uude https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
- johnpmayer 13y ago
  Part of me thinks those are cool, but the rest of my shouts "why should I have to do that?!".
  - Makkhdyn 13y ago
    Because Google learns what your preferences are, DDG don't. This is why there is no "search bubble", unfortunately it comes at a price.
    - bconway 13y ago
      That would be reasonable, except that on all my searches that DDG fails on, Google works perfectly fine in private browsing from a different IP.
- joeblau 13y ago
  I didn't know about those. The thing about !bang options is that you have to know something more about the problem to know the appropriate place to look--And that's the whole point of a search engine. The search engine should determine if the best/most popular solution to my problem is on one of those !bang sites or if it's on koders.com.
  - jggonz 13y ago
    We're automatically detecting categories on blekko.com now. If you type in a programming question, it should return a category called /programming or /javascript, or whatever the language is you're looking for. Examples taken from some stackoverflow posts: http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNotFoundException http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNo... http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20error')%20python http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20e...
3rd3 13y ago
We could create a search machine decision plugin for Firefox that forwards tricky queries to Google. Maybe a simple rule like .*[\d|\.|\"|\,|\(].*|.{42,} is already sufficient.

by joeblau 13y ago

hkmurakami 13y ago

have you checked out some of the !bang options available? I just took a look and here is a sampling of what you have available. Sysadmin: !apache !awesome !bsd !chef !codeweavers !cookbook !cve !datasheet !distro !distrowatch !eventid !everymac !exex !exploitdb !filext !fsf !fsfe !funtoo !gdiag !gnomebugs !gnu !howtoforge (!htf) !ip !irp !iso !linode !linuxfr !linuxhcl !linuxmint !lxr !mysql !nginxwiki !openbsd !openbsdmisc !opensuse !oracle !osvdb !parabola !peppermintos !playterm !postgresql !psql !puppet !qth !salix !salixforums !sectube !senderbase !spice !splunk !sqlite !susebug !susepkg !technetlib !timestamp !tldp !trisquel !use !vmkb !vol !wog !zahe Sysadmin (debian): !debbug (!dbugs) !debian !debianforums !debianfr !debml !debmla !debwiki !dfiles !dman !dpackages (!dpkg !dpts) !dtag !fanch Sysadmin (FreeBSD): !bsdman !fports !freebsd !freshports !fxr Sysadmin (Gentoo): !gbugs !gentoo !gentoowiki !gpackages !gwiki Sysadmin (RedHat): !rbugs Sysadmin (Solaris): !sunpatch Sysadmin (Ubuntu): !askubuntu !docubu !docubufr !omgubuntu (!omgu) !ppa !puc !ubottu !ubuntuforums (!ubuntuf) !ubuntuusers !uman !upackages !upkg !uu !uude https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

johnpmayer 13y ago
Part of me thinks those are cool, but the rest of my shouts "why should I have to do that?!".
- Makkhdyn 13y ago
  Because Google learns what your preferences are, DDG don't. This is why there is no "search bubble", unfortunately it comes at a price.
  - bconway 13y ago
    That would be reasonable, except that on all my searches that DDG fails on, Google works perfectly fine in private browsing from a different IP.
joeblau 13y ago
I didn't know about those. The thing about !bang options is that you have to know something more about the problem to know the appropriate place to look--And that's the whole point of a search engine. The search engine should determine if the best/most popular solution to my problem is on one of those !bang sites or if it's on koders.com.
- jggonz 13y ago
  We're automatically detecting categories on blekko.com now. If you type in a programming question, it should return a category called /programming or /javascript, or whatever the language is you're looking for. Examples taken from some stackoverflow posts: http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNotFoundException http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNo... http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20error')%20python http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20e...

3rd3 13y ago

We could create a search machine decision plugin for Firefox that forwards tricky queries to Google. Maybe a simple rule like .*[\d|\.|\"|\,|\(].*|.{42,} is already sufficient.