Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by valarauca1 on Thursday December 04, 2014 @10:17AM (#8699597)

To any readers. I highly suggest you try DuckDuckGo, especially for tech related/documentation searches.

The !{language} searches are incredibly powerful. Taking you to the language's documentation repo, and displaying results only there. Which I find hugely help for learning new languages.

I've switched over completely for my day to day searches. Google offers next to nothing I can't get with DuckDuckGo.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by ufo on Thursday December 04, 2014 @01:02PM (#8700606)

"[language] bla bla !so" is also pretty neat. It searches Stackoverflow and filters by language tag.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by ausjke on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:21PM (#8700340)

I use it occasionally, what does !{language} search mean?

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by polymatter on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:40PM (#8700451)

!java means limit search to Java documentation

!scala means limit search to Scala documentation

!golang means limit search to Go documentation

!cpp means limit search to C++ documentation

etc.

see (https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html) for more.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by duggieawesome on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:32PM (#8700407)

Say you want to refer to the JavaScript docs, you can type:

"!javascript function" and it will take you immediately to the documentation.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by christiangenco on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:40PM (#8700456)

This works sporadically for me, and the autocomplete text is completely wrong: http://i.imgur.com/v3skzTX.png

That search, "!ruby string", also redirects to... a google search?

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by valarauca1 on Thursday December 04, 2014 @01:11PM (#8700658)

Luckily DuckDuckGo is partially open, you can help contribute fixes :)

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by droope on Thursday December 04, 2014 @03:08PM (#8701326)

Duck duck go does not share search data with any open search database e.g. YaCy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

It'd be pretty great if they did!

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by ausjke on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:40PM (#8700455)

Thanks. I was confused by language for various countries...

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by tomclancy on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:27PM (#8700370)

Google it

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