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SHOW HN2012
95points
63comments
#230of 1,677 in 2012
Top 14%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
7 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Idea: 5 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for people who prefix searches with !g.
From 2 comments
This is great! I've tried to adopt DDG but in the end I'm finding myself prefacing everything with !g -- to the point where I will type it for other engines. Nice work!
stevewillows on HNAwesome. I think this is the perfect solution for those users 'on the fence' about switching to DuckDuckGo. You can send them this link and say, look - its Google but now you get…
mrschwabe on HN
Search suggestions are a plus.
From 1 comment
I really like the search suggestions.
rduchnik on HN
Objections
Built-in browser keyword search already does this.
From 3 comments
You can use keyword searches to get the !bang functionality directly in your browser for any search engine of your choice. There's no need to go through DuckDuckGo.
w1ntermute on HNYou mean other browsers don't allow you to create search shortcuts? eg "a blah" for amazon, "w blah" for wikipedia "s blah" for stackoverflow? - says a long time Opera users
excuse-me on HNEvery time I see someone laud ddg's !bang searches, I ask myself, "What makes managing your browser's configuration so damn hard?" I go to Chrome's "settings", I click "Manage…
jemfinch on HN
Google results do not auto-focus the search box on load.
From 2 comments
Small suggestion: You should give focus to the text area when the user lands on the page, so I can instantly search and not have to reach for the mouse or tab.
missing_cipher on HNYes. I was so excited to use this but my heart broke when I realized the search box wasn't auto-focused. That's a dealbreaker for me.
strangetimes on HN
DuckDuckGo results are weaker than Google's for some queries.
From 2 comments
I've switched full time to DDG for a couple months now, and have rarely ever used !g to Google results because I was unsatisfied with the DDG results. I'm curious what the…
Rudism on HNWhen I search for something on DDG, I generally find one or two good results somewhere in the first set and all the rest are spammy/junk sites that repost content from other…
chaud on HN
Requests
Auto-focus the search box on page load.
From 2 comments
Small suggestion: You should give focus to the text area when the user lands on the page, so I can instantly search and not have to reach for the mouse or tab.
missing_cipher on HNI agree. If there is more than one field it can get annoying to have the wrong one automatically selected, but with only one field - for sure, save me the mouse click.
K2h on HN
Support the backslash bang syntax.
From 1 comment
I wrote this a while ago (July last year) as http://goosegoosego.com whose source code is available at https://gist.github.com/1113894 You missed a spot in your handling of bang…
avar on HN
Add Google search suggestions for Firefox.
From 1 comment
This looks interesting, but I find myself missing Google’s search suggestions. Does anyone know a way to enable them for this search engine? (I’m on Firefox.) I see somebody…
roryokane on HN
Questions
How to set it as default search in Firefox.
From 1 comment
Nifty idea. I'm having a hard time setting it as default search for Firefox though. I followed the instructions to "Add a keyword for this search"...but I'm not really sure how…
polyfractal on HN
Whether the site logs searches.
From 1 comment
I wrote this a while ago (July last year) as http://goosegoosego.com whose source code is available at https://gist.github.com/1113894 You missed a spot in your handling of bang…
avar on HN
Alternatives named
Browser keyword search shortcuts.
From 2 comments
You can use keyword searches to get the !bang functionality directly in your browser for any search engine of your choice. There's no need to go through DuckDuckGo.
w1ntermute on HNThen use a browser that supports open search, type "imdb <tab>" in your address bar and whatever you want to search for, no need to use "bang-notation". I rarely find websites…
vegardx on HN
Alfred custom searches.
From 2 comments
This would be a weird place to stop for someone trying to minimize their time executing searches and clicking. Having to navigate to the browser to launch a search for MDN Arrays…
danneu on HNThe idea is to make it your browser's default search since lots of people (the majority?) search from the browser search bar or omnibar. Edit: you could also add this to Alfred.…
mcrittenden on HN
GooseGooseGo.
From 1 comment
I wrote this a while ago (July last year) as http://goosegoosego.com whose source code is available at https://gist.github.com/1113894 You missed a spot in your handling of bang…
avar on HN
Blekko slashtags.
From 1 comment
Tough one. blekko has a WoW slashtag, but it doesn't auto-boost for that query. You can invoke it by hand, though, how do you like this result?…
greglindahl on HN