How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers

Re:How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers by arkadiyt on Friday April 01, 2016 @04:12PM (#11408161)

They've made a ton of improvements since the last time I tried them - I'm using them permanently now to get away from Google and it's great. Would recommend giving it a try.

My only 2 complaints are:

1) I make a search and want to see news (or whatever) but they don't show the news link - they only display it based on some algorithm that is wrong all the time.

2) No maps - Google is still the leader here. Would be great to see some sort of integration between duckduckgo and openstreetmap

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Re:How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers by moollaza on Friday April 01, 2016 @04:42PM (#11408436)

For 1 -- try adding "news" to the query. That should almost always trigger our News Instant Answer

For 2 -- We actually have maps powered by openstreetmap: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=20+paoli+pike+paoli&ia=maps

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Re:How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers by alohaas on Friday April 01, 2016 @04:44PM (#11408457)

Also check out the directions feature we recently integrated to maps so you can hop to another service if you like :)

https://duck.co/blog/post/291/directions

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