[GRLUG] Google problem?

Bob Kline bob.kline at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 15:49:49 EDT 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/blekko-duckduckgo-partner/
> > **
> > On the other, there is Gabriel Weinberg, a one-man band who has
> > built DuckDuckGo into a favorite of web geeks who haunt Reddit (owned by
> > Wired.com’s parent corporation) and Hacker News. Using the web results
> from
> > Bing (via BOSS) and a custom crawler designed to find and remove spam
> from
> > results, Weinberg is now handling 2 million queries a month.
> > **
> > Apparently duckduckgo is basically Bing
> > with a filter.
> > So it appears to be better than google?
> > At least for your uses anyway?
> >    -- Bob
>
> By and large, yeah, although I use the !bang syntax a lot. (Doesn't
> hurt that !rosettacode searches Rosetta Code, so I've got some
> additional mileage out of it. :) )
>
> Some reason the author didn't use google
rather than Bing?

Oh, what's !bang syntax?

    -- Bob

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