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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
The project and community are "large" relative to most open source projects but "most" open source projects have fewer than 10 contributors.
To get to the scale of, say, Mozilla or FreeBSD, it will require community governance, so any help with driving the technologies and/or people/processes forward.
If you're an interested contributor, then you are a potential owner in the project. The community is at the wheel here -- we're just paying for gas.
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks! As the community grows, I run into more and more IAs that I didn't know were live. This one really felt supernatural when I was searching for a genuine answer in a moment of confusion: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=12pm+noon+or+midnight%3F&ia=answer
Comment · 10 years ago
This is why we need help! :) Really, though, even if we had 100,000 employees, having a great Instant Answer for hyper-niche searches requires esoteric knowledge and expertise that can best be achieved from a community.
Not to mention, it can happen faster. Bitcoin conversions were possible on DuckDuckGo before Google bc our community rallied behind it. The people most passionate about a topic are most likely to create a great answer for it.
I can't imagine what my version of a color-code IA would look like.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cmyk%280.12%2C+0%2C+0%2C+0%29&ia=a...
Finally, thanks for the feedback (and for going into specific detail) and for the kind words. It's great to hear that you're seeing noticeable improvement.
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks for helping point this out! I lead community at DuckDuckGo and there are a lot more, "Instant Answers" that the world should know about. The community of open source devs really deserve a standing ovation for things like this (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=who%27s+in+space&ia=answer).
Check out the whole list of answers in development and live here: https://duck.co/ia
Comment · 11 years ago
Both! We're really in need of some additional folks with commit bits, if you're interested in getting involved on the technical side.
This page will help you find the best place to start but please let me know if I can help: http://duckduckhack.com/
Comment · 11 years ago
I work at DuckDuckGo. Our most popular open source project is DuckDuckHack: http://duckduckhack.com/ Developers leverage code, APIs, wikis, etc. to answer searches (across a broad range of topics) in few or zero clicks. What we call, "Instant Answers."
The nature of the project only works well with the involvement of non-developers in that the best Instant Answers are made by subject-matter experts across a variety of fields. Suggesting ideas, finding great sources, and the overall experience of the IA are all better if coming from someone who really wants to improve searches for that topic. https://duck.co/help/community/contributing
Let me know if you're interested in getting involved--any time :)
Comment · 12 years ago
We'll definitely think about how to improve this!
We added the Feedback button in the Menu options so that people used the Feedback page: https://duckduckgo.com/feedback
That way, the reports are really actionable (since it's broken out by type) and people don't spam the form :\
Comment · 12 years ago
eek--thanks for the heads up. Not to subject you to that again but do you remember what the subdomain was? Was it content from http://stats.com/ ?
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks! We'd also encourage every developer to check out: http://duckduckhack.com/
The example reported doesn't seem to be an issue the organic links but if you find any at all, please let us know. Also, we're on the lookout for any instant answers that pop by default but are irrelevant for the query. If you see any, please let us know at https://duck.co/forum
Comment · 12 years ago
To clarify, this is not a DuckDuckGo product and having your autosuggestions come from Google means passing your searches to them as well.
The next version of DuckDuckGo was released today: https://duckduckgo.com/
and includes our own autosuggest (with !bang autosuggest as well--just type !) . You can get autosuggest in your browser's address bar with some of our browser addons like the Firefox one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-fo...
Comment · 12 years ago
Gotcha! Sidebar scrolling (via flick, not tap) is still being worked on but the other iffyness sounds iffy :) We'll give it a look.
Comment · 12 years ago
Duly noted! We'll definitely take that to heart.
What content would you be most interested in following?
"paging epi0Bauqu!"