So you're scraping the info from the pages and displaying it in the DDG app? From the user's perspective it's a wonderful idea and I would love to use a search engine that did this well, but that could piss off a lot of website owners.
I had tested similar functionality on the Web site and never got any complaints. I'm only showing a snippet and linking to the real page, i.e. like all the other search engines. The only difference is that my snippet should be much better (when shown for these cases) in that it is a readable paragraph chosen for your particular search. That said, if anyone does have any issues with it, I'm happy to take that into account.
Interesting app but I disagree with the "going to Web sites on your phone to find information is a pain" assertion. On the iOS devices I've never found "web searches" that difficult. Am I the only one?
I do like the zero-click for information though, so that could be worth it. It is also nice to see DDG's continuing efforts to ensure "private" searches.
I wish my phone could be listening to me all the time, and search for things I say like "when was Mozart born". I'm not sure how it would get the answers back to me. Maybe an ear-piece?
I think that would be the ultimate mobile search.
Has anyone tried making an app like that? Can an app on the iPhone or Android access an ear-piece?
You (epi0Bauqu) should take a look at i.reddit.com as the interface looks similar and it already works on android and iphone and going to m.dukgo.com or m.duckduckgo.com would be somewhat enticing
Thx--will do. I've actually had this (mobile formatting) on my list for a while, but just haven't gotten to it yet.
I just wish I could have Spotlight be a Google search instead of searching my phone. Then maybe I would actually use it.