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[0]https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/pull/100
And you wanted all that data to be displayed when a person's name is searched for?
And when the people at DDG decided not to pull in your plugin you're calling it censorship?
I have no words
Go on, tell us more about how you don't like x behavoir that people enage in everyday with or without the aid of technology? Ever comment on somone without their consent, even if there may be some truth to it or not in an unaccountable fashion? Ever upload a photo to a social network without asking all possible parties if that was ok? Did you give the ok for mass surveillance by corperations and governments and the secret profiles they compile and leverage in private?
DDG has every right to not want to allow x for their platform, but let's not pretend that them making that decision is going to make things just go away, especially just because one may or not like x. Not all of us can create The Names Database, cash out for $10m and try to sell privacy as a service through a search engine and ignore the elephant in the room.
Stuff running on some website that only the web site admins can see is not in the same ballpark.
But to carry the analogy to a closed-source web site that you just connect to, as is the topic of this comment thread, we'd certainly be less safe if we routed all SSL traffic through an unknown system on the web that had the opportunity to decrypt and encrypt.
Probably not, but for ease of use, I've used it a couple of times to generate temporary passwords that users are forced to change on login.
I wish the !bang searches in particular were more discoverable, though. Perhaps if you search for "foo site:bar", or "foo bar" where bar is a well-known site or service, DDG should suggest 'Try "foo !bar" or "!bar foo" to ...".
I think the easiest is this: Go to the ddg home page, click on the drop down to the right of the search field, and at the bottom of that is "By category (!bang)"
Click that and you'll go to https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
Or you could just remember duckduckgo.com/bang :)
We plan to overhaul the !bangs page when we get a moment and something that's already in place is a categorization system: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html i.e. they're arranged by type! So someone could, for example, modifying the upcoming instant answer to show all the available !bangs and their associated domains by searching for "image !bangs" (which would show all the available !bangs under the "image" category) or !blogs, etc. Is that more of what you mean?
Would be nice if, as you say, you could type in, for instance, 'lung scaffold biomedical !', and have a drop-down bang search appear, populated with the relevant scientific search engines, and then also include graphical logos, and descriptions. It would make the !bang options much more discoverable.
--the !bangs are already categorized and it sounds like you're looking for a way to see which !bangs might apply to your search (for better results). ~explore mode. Would the suggestion of making them searchable by category be a good solution or something even different?
> Would the suggestion of making them searchable by category be a good solution or something even different?
On the /bang.html page I think it would be good if you could search through the !bangs using a small text description, or a series of tags, because a single category doesn't really cover it. For instance, scirus or google scholar are science search engines, you can't just put them in the 'academic' or 'learning' section, and expect people to be able to find them, unless they already know the sites.
(I admittedly can't be certain they were an hour ago when you asked.)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=UN+1993
Perl module: https://github.com/tantalor/perl-Number-UN
DDG module: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/blob/mas...
It was very nice to work with the DDG people to get this integrated.
-- Edit: I've just noticed the query goes straight to imdbapi.com, which returns the same results when searching for "Shawshank Redemption", without the "The" prefix. Which is still a bit weird, but has nothing to do with DDG.
Such a simple idea- and yet I've never seen Google figure something like this out. I mean I'm sure it's buried somewhere in Google's technical docs, but those docs don't qualify as easy interfaces.
Well done DuckDuckGo!
So, anyone can suggest or create instant answers and it works out better that they're open source, since people who are most passionate about a topic (movies, legos, pokemon, gardening, etc) will know the best sources for it and the best information to display.
What if I don't know Perl?
If you don't know Perl, that's OK! Some instant answer types (Fathead, Longtail) don't require the use of Perl. Also, if you know PHP, Ruby, or Python you should be able to write a Goodie in Perl pretty easily using this awesome cheat sheet.
ref: https://duck.co/duckduckhack/faq#goodie
So DDG Goodie plugins can only be written in Perl.
I used noscript for a while in blocking everything mode, then requestpolicy for better filtering, but got tired of having to allow stuff for most of my browsing (now I'm on adblock privacy + ghostery + privacy badger + cookie monster + biscuit + self-destructing cookie + smart referer).
I'd love to read about what others do and their usage, how they get around.
I should be able to browse the internet without scripts if I want to for my safety's sake.