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I tried DDG for a day on my phone. I follow stocks and will often enter "[ticker] stock" and Google search shows me that nice chart at the top. DDG doesn't hav
by pduan 7y ago
I tried DDG for a day on my phone. I follow stocks and will often enter "[ticker] stock" and Google search shows me that nice chart at the top.
DDG doesn't have anything like that and forces you to click into a financial website.
I had to switch back. If it added that widget, I'd probably make the switch full time.
- vanadium 7y agoI put in "AAPL stock" and got Apple's ticker. I put in "CGC stock" and got Canopy Growth's. "GOOG stock", got Google's ticker. The actual queries I entered were not wrapped in quotes. So for some stocks, it's actually there. But no charts.
- knolax 7y agoI got the ticker too but still no history chart.
- dbtx 7y agoI also got nothing with [0], so I unblocked JavaScript and removed /html from the URL and there's the ticker at [1]. I suppose ia= is for 'inline applet' or something. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=aapl+stock https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=aapl+stock [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aapl+stock&ia=stock https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aapl+stock&ia=stock
- dbtx 7y agoFunny, you're justifying Google's strategy that e.g. Genius.com complained about: scrape and present the raw data that people want, and they'll be able to avoid another pageload, while the site doesn't get a visitor-- but wasn't that the point of SEO? It's like search engine means something else now. Along the same lines, the first time I heard a TV commercial for Bing (~10y ago) I had very little idea what it even was but they happily promoted it as a 'decision engine', IIRC.