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DuckDuckGo integration with StackOverflow is now live

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Thx for the support! Here's some background: full punctuation should be indexed; it's using the SO CC dumps (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/); only "good" Q&As are showing; additional logic to only show when relevant to search term.

I'm really against false positives, so I know there are a lot of false negatives out there as a result. If there are particular examples (where you think something should have come up but doesn't, or visa-versa), please let me know and I'll work on it. I'd welcome other improvement ideas as well.

Note that there is a lag because I'm using the dumps, so anything within the past month or so won't be there.

Two things -

1. That box is really tiny. Could there be a way to make it larger?

2. Here's an example of when I think something should have come up, but doesn't: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python%20pad%20string%20with%200

What I want is #2 on that list, but I don't get any nice little box.

Thx. 1) Would being able to drag it bigger help? 2) will look into this one.

Update: the python pad string example isn't working because of the indexing of punctuation (python: in question title). Will re-work this for next release.

Agreed. With the box so small, reading text in there is a chore.

I agree, one of the things chrome has made me accustomed to is the ability to resize mutliline text boxes. I realize the zero click box is not a multiline text box, but unconscionably I find myself trying to drag the corner to make it larger.

full punctuation should be indexed;

Outstanding, this is a major boost for folks in haskell, scala, F# ! I'll have to bust out RealWorld, staircase (3 pages in index devoted to punctuation!), tapir , Chris Smith's F# books this weekend, see how well this works

Given recent comments I've seen about the searchability of SO, I think they owe you a beer.

Message just sent: "Consider yourself invited to lunch at our office or a beer after work any day."

Just replied: Haha, I'm in Philly and my sister lives in NYC so I might just take you up on that :)

By the way... In IE8, the middle mouse click to open results in a new tab is broken. If the popup blocker is turned on it will simply open the page in the same window. If the popup blocker is turned off, it opens the results in a brand new window rather than a tab.

It works as I would expect in Chrome and Firefox.

Thx--thought I fixed this :). Will revisit.

This is only tangentially related to the post (congrats on the cool new feature!), but my biggest gripe with DGG is that for some reason it never seems find projects hosted on github.

Case in point: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=clojure-maven-plugin&v= vs. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=clojure-maven-plugi...

It's so bad that I always add "!g" to a search if I know that the page I'm looking for is hosted on github.

Anyway, DGG is still my default search engine. Thanks and keep up the great work.

That's weird because I source github (http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Merb+messenger&v=), though it's true there is a lag. I'll look into why that's not getting picked up; must be a bug in there somewhere. If only every site had dumps :).

This is a cool integration hopefully they will add the other official sites as well. It would be nice to have mixed results like this:

http://sess.ioncannon.net/#q=nginx%20apache%20lighttpd&p...

All three (SO, SU, & SF) are in there.

Impressed. I was going to make a comment about how this could break some searches outside of the development field but when I typed in just "django" it gives me all the options of what "django" COULD mean, allows me to select the one I want, and then searches on that.

Such integration is cool, but I think the box needs work. It is ugly and hard to read, imo. :(

Did you want to remove the same result from the list further down? It also appears as item 4.

Probably best not to, since people may ignore the zero click box and in general have no quick way of knowing that they are related.

Can you make there be a way to expand the content while staying on the same page?

Now do reddit!

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