[GRLUG] Google problem?

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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

http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
http://duckduckgo.com/tech.html


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