Using this felt similar to using the Github Launch Bar[1] for the first time.<p>Something about having a command line interface really makes it feel like you are communicating deeply with the software, as opposed to poking around its surface in arranged flows. With a command line the interaction is different - it is exploratory with freestyle flow composition, and that can be really fun.<p>Modern graphical interfaces combined with a means to freely manipulate data and compose commands seem to be quite rare. I have always wished to have a full command line accessible in RPGs inside the game's menu system, so I could script some tedious things.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/launch" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/launch</a>
I think this might be more useful the other way around.<p>Put ddg inside a linux shell and let me interoperate with linux commands.<p>eg. ddg reviews samsung note | grep "note 2"
If the world were full of people who were interested in optimizing their computer interfaces this way, all websites would support a mode of operation like this and there would be a framework for the end user to pipe them to each other like the unix pipeline.<p>Let us make it so!
<i>> :why Because Devdas uses vimperator with Google?? I don't think they mix well.</i><p>and I had to disable vimium in order to use this one. they don't mix well...
I'm hoping that Github and DDG convince more websites to have some kind of command interface, as it's really my favorite mode of interaction.<p><whine>
I get that the current look is the stereotypical "hacker" style terminal, but none of my terminals have such a small font or high contrast coloring :(<p>Ctrl + doesn't seem to increase the font size, either.
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Is this any more useful than a normal web search?<p>Google Search (with Instant Search enabled) has had keyboard navigation for a long time. After you hit enter on a search, hit tab and you can navigate the results with your arrow keys. And when you go to Google's homepage your cursor is automatically placed in the Search box, so you can search Google with only a keyboard.
What I really like is that these commands work: <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/goodies" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/goodies</a><p>This includes returning images, for example type this "qrcode <a href="http://ddg.gg/" rel="nofollow">http://ddg.gg/</a> into the cli.<p>ps. !Bang tags don't seem to work though.
Anyone remember Google shell [<a href="http://goosh.org/" rel="nofollow">http://goosh.org/</a>], similar idea.<p>Now what I really want is an xterm that can render HTML/CSS. That way I can interleave my unix dweebry with outputs that use a modern display language.
In addition to the mixed content issue on Chrome, I've pushed out a fix for the tab completion component. It too inherently suffers from mixed content because our autocomplete server only does HTTP at the moment.<p>Please let us know if you see anymore issues.
I really like this, but there needs to be a better way to navigate to a page. The pop-up scheme is blocked by my browser. Perhaps, a iframe with the terminal becoming a header similar to Google image search? Maybe using Links?
In :help it says:<p>'pronounce castle' to pronounce a word (say castle). (uses [:0] <a href="http://www.forvo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forvo.com/</a>)<p>When you type pronounce castle however - it searches for it, and doesn't pronounce anything.
The feedback feature seems broken:<p>>> :feedback my@email.com "my feedback" (I also tried without the ")
"Sorry your feedback could not be send :-( Please try again."<p>I love it. I really do. Congratulation and keep up the good work with ddg!
I tried leaving some feedback but apparently "Sorry your feedback could not be send[sic] :-( Please try again."<p>Would be awesome to have a command like _ that opens the first result in the last batch.<p>Otherwise, kudos, this is amazing!
I wrote a chrome extension [1] to load this for every new tab.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/timothyandrew/DuckDuckGo-TTY-Homepage" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/timothyandrew/DuckDuckGo-TTY-Homepage</a>
I love stuff like this. Clearly targeting hackers is certainly a good idea.<p>I can't use this in Chrome on my tablet, though, because I can't open the keyboard.
There was some news a few days back that DuckDuckGo was shutting down!<p>Where does this leave us. What is happening at DDG?<p>EDIT: Sorry, I read shut out as shut down!