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by _zekiel 10y ago
I work with Gabe every day and I know how much he appreciates the continued support from the HN community. Generally, it sounds like he/we should post more :) What content would you be most interested in following? "paging epi0Bau
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by _zekiel 10y ago
The project and community are "large" relative to most open source projects but "most" open source projects have fewer than 10 contributors. To get to the scale of, say, Mozilla or FreeBSD, it will require community gov
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by _zekiel 10y ago
Thanks! As the community grows, I run into more and more IAs that I didn't know were live. This one really felt supernatural when I was searching for a genuine answer in a moment of confusion: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=
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by _zekiel 10y ago
This is why we need help! :) Really, though, even if we had 100,000 employees, having a great Instant Answer for hyper-niche searches requires esoteric knowledge and expertise that can best be achieved from a community. Not to mention, it c
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by _zekiel 11y ago
Thanks for helping point this out! I lead community at DuckDuckGo and there are a lot more, "Instant Answers" that the world should know about. The community of open source devs really deserve a standing ovation for things like th
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DuckDuckGo Global Quack and Hack to improve dev-related search results(duck.co)
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by _zekiel 11y ago
Both! We're really in need of some additional folks with commit bits, if you're interested in getting involved on the technical side. This page will help you find the best place to start but please let me know if I can help: htt
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by _zekiel 11y ago
I work at DuckDuckGo. Our most popular open source project is DuckDuckHack: http://duckduckhack.com/ Developers leverage code, APIs, wikis, etc. to answer searches (across a broad range of topics) in few or zero clicks. Wh
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by _zekiel 12y ago
We'll definitely think about how to improve this! We added the Feedback button in the Menu options so that people used the Feedback page: https://duckduckgo.com/feedback That way, the reports are really actionable (si
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by _zekiel 12y ago
eek--thanks for the heads up. Not to subject you to that again but do you remember what the subdomain was? Was it content from http://stats.com/ ?
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Thanks! We'd also encourage every developer to check out: http://duckduckhack.com/ The example reported doesn't seem to be an issue the organic links but if you find any at all, please let us know. Also, we'
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by _zekiel 12y ago
To clarify, this is not a DuckDuckGo product and having your autosuggestions come from Google means passing your searches to them as well. The next version of DuckDuckGo was released today: https://duckduckgo.com/ and incl
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Gotcha! Sidebar scrolling (via flick, not tap) is still being worked on but the other iffyness sounds iffy :) We'll give it a look.
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Duly noted! We'll definitely take that to heart.
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Thanks for the heads up! We're going to update this page soon--IMDBAPI uses a variety of sources, one of them (iirc) is OMDBAPI.com and it looks like the error is stemming from there: http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Shawshank
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Duly noted! It's been relatively hard to discover so we're working on that for the next version of DDG. Really appreciate the feedback in-favor!
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Thanks! Looking for it now.
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by _zekiel 12y ago
We open sourced our instant answers platform a couple years ago, in the hope to get more eyeballs on them (for quality and quantity): http://duckduckhack.com/ It might not address your point but any underlying flaws (rando
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by _zekiel 12y ago
These come from our open source instant answers platform: http://duckduckhack.com/ So, anyone can suggest or create instant answers and it works out better that they're open source, since people who are most passionate
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by _zekiel 12y ago
I mentioned this in my comment above but am wondering if it applies here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7729839 --the !bangs are already categorized and it sounds like you're looking for a way to see whi
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Making the !bangs more explorable is definitely partner to making them generally more visible. Someone had suggested an instant answer that would actually fix this: https://duck.co/ideas/idea/832/where-goes-th
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by _zekiel 12y ago
it's also a DuckDuckGo instant answer (any xkcd comic) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xkcd+1361
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Should be fixed now! Thanks again.
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by _zekiel 12y ago
Thanks for the heads up! We're on it! The fix probably came in mid-update and didn't get included in this batch. Rolling out a hotfix for it shortly, though.
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by _zekiel 13y ago
We're (DuckDuckGo) happy to see the response to this! Our instant answers are open source and we'd love to have one for every possible search, no matter how niche. If anyone's interested in suggesting or creating an instant a
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by _zekiel 13y ago
Have you tried the link at the bottom of the newsletter? Clicking it should unsub you: http://flash.duckduckgo.com/e.js?remove_address=core@duckduc... If that doesn't work, please email inbound@duckduckgo.com