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Re: Try DuckDuckGo://

by metaperl (Curate)

on Oct 12, 2011 at 18:39 UTC ( [id://931060]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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DuckDuckGo is incredibly powerful, and I'm really excited about it.

to have done as much as he has done all by himself is incredible. and I think it's all in Perl with nginx as front-end webserver. and his response to feedback about issues is incredible.

I dont like that teensy-weensy little arrow to pulldown for alternative searches. And unfortuntely the amount of intelligence that google puts into studying webpages and providing relevant results has never been matched before or after them.

The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development.

-- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"

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Re^2: Try DuckDuckGo:// by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 12, 2011 at 23:43 UTC
google puts into studying webpages and providing relevant results has never been matched before or after them I'm actually increasingly frustrated with Google's bad guesswork, erroneous query rewriting, parochial filtering/blocking/banning of resources, and catering to the lowest common denominator of web users. And I'm not even the only one in the local cube cluster so this doesn't seem to be a fringe reaction to their direction.	[reply]
Re^3: Try DuckDuckGo:// by djzort (Sexton) on Oct 13, 2011 at 00:11 UTC
add my +1 to duckduckgo, although i dont always find their results to be as good as google, i enjoy their community and the no-nonsense web design (why google was cool originally) googles latest redesign is fugly. ddg has just hired their first (second if you consider the founder) employee, and lots of their code is on github	[reply]