prakash's comments

On: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

[prakash]

Can you please point us to that article?

Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

[kamaal → prakash]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817466

Prakash,

Thanks for clarifying. Might sound like stereotyping, I apologize if it does. Looking at your name, just asking if you guys have a office in India?

What sort of problems are you working on?

[chalst → kamaal]

They're based in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/duck-duck-go

There are quite a lot of Indians and people of Indian descent in the US tech industry.

[crazedpsyc → kamaal]

Yup, no offices in India, but contractors are distributed worldwide and work over the wire. :)

On: DuckDuckHack

[prakash]

Right now, you can go to settings (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html) & select UK from the region settings.

[shocks → prakash]

Yes I know, but if I'm not at my own workstation I have to remember to change it. I'd like to go to duckduckgo.co.uk and have it immediately default to UK search - the same way Google.com does based on my IP.

[prakash → shocks]

Our immediate plans don't involve maintaing country specific domains. We might revisit this if/when DDG is available in additional languages.

Also, some users don't like that country level redirect and prefer the .com.

One solution, which does require a couple of steps is to use our Cloud save & save your settings anonymously in the cloud.

At the bottom of the settings page (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html), you can enable cloud save, there is also a FAQ.

On: DuckDuckHack

[prakash]

Please check github: - https://github.com/duckduckgo - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies

Some of these are listed on our Goodies page: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies/

New plugins are announced on http://twitter.com/duckduckhack

Feedback welcome.

On: DuckDuckHack

[prakash]

Thanks for the feedback, will pass it along.

On: Bing vs. Google

[prakash]

(we're still the only search engine that lets you completely turn off ads as a user preference for example)

You can do that with DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html > Layout tab > Advertisements.

[I work at DDG.]

[ChuckMcM → prakash]

That is awesome! I'm a firm believer in giving folks choices in this regard.

On: Introducing DuckDuckHack

[prakash]

Good ideas, we are collecting all of them here: http://ideas.duckduckhack.com/

On: Introducing DuckDuckHack

[prakash]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3915588

On: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

[prakash]

!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.

Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html reply

On: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

[prakash]

!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.

Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

On: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

[prakash]

Fastestfox, Cyberspace and others use our API: http://duckduckgo.com/api.html

Would love to hear ideas on (iii).