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==Extensions and Apps==
 
==Extensions and Apps==
 
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Firefox now has a [[DuckDuckGo.com]] extension. This extension improves the quality of your search results by making use of Duck Duck go's search engine. Duck Duck Go gets rid of useless pages, parked and spam pages from search results.
  
Our toolbar currently does two things. First, it helps you more easily use our search engine, Duck Duck Go. For more info about us, please check out http://duckduckgo.com/about.html
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The extensions thus saves you from 42 Million useless Web sites. Here useless Web sites are defined as sites with nothing but ads. If you're like most people, you've been to many of them from either search results in other search engines or by slightly mistyping Web addresses, e.g. yotube.com or facebok.com.
  
Second, our toolbar saves you from 42 Million useless Web sites! We define useless Web sites as sites with nothing but ads. If you're like most people, you've been to many of them from either search results in other search engines or by slightly mistyping Web addresses, e.g. yotube.com, facebok.com, turbotx.com, twitterr.com, arthritis-expert.com, etc.
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Duck Duck go has partnered with a firm, [http://www.ivegotafang.com Ive Got a Fang] on a project. The project identifies parked/spam domains. Thus these blocked domains have also been removed from Duck Duck Go's search results.
 
 
At best, these sites are a complete waste of time. At worst, they involve pop-ups, scams, and who really knows what else? Anyway, our toolbar saves you from them. Check out the preview pictures for some examples.
 
 
 
We partnered with the Parked Domains Project to develop this toolbar, which is a project that identifies parked/spam domains. These blocked domains have also been removed from our search results. For the full list of sites blocked, check out their Web site at http://www.ivegotafang.com/
 
 
 
When you go to a blocked site, a block page comes up where you can choose to go back, proceed anyway, or search. In addition, our search engine provides alternate site suggestions where available (as shown in the preview pictures), e.g. 'Did you mean youtube.com?' instead of yotube.com.
 
 
 
If you proceed anyway to a blocked domain, that decision is remembered and it will no longer be blocked (during that browser session). You can also report a blocked site as useful (i.e. a false positive), at which point the toolbar will ask if you if you want to add an exception for that domain. If you add an exception then that domain will no longer be blocked, even across browser sessions.
 
 
 
There are preferences (shown in a preview picture) where you can add additional domains to block or specify domains to never block. You can also change the function key that auto-hides/shows the toolbar. Finally, there is a button you can use to report useless Web sites that are not blocked (labeled 'Report Useless Site'), which helps us and The Parked Domains Project improve the blocking system.
 
 
 
TLDs covered: aero, biz, com, coop, info, mobi, net, org, and us.
 
 
 
Note: there is an FAQ on our add-on's homepage.
 
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iPhone Search App
 
It's Duck Duck Go,
 
optimized for the iPhone.
 
 
 
Developed with CHS Systems.
 
  
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Duck Duck Go has brought the Duck search to the iPhone. This search app is optimized for the iPhone and is developed in collaboration with, CHS systems.
  
 
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Revision as of 11:22, 7 April 2009

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Duck Duck Go

Duck Duck Go is a new search engine which claims to provide users with better results and less garbage as compared to its competitors. The unique and catchy name along with innovative solutions means that if Duck Duck Go can deliver on promises this might just turn out to be the future of searches.

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The following important characteristics make Duck Duck Go a winner:

  • Zero-click information that is summaries & related topics incorporated in the search results.
  • Ambiguous keyword detection. Click here to see what happens when you search for "apple"
  • Official sites labeled & on top.
  • Simpler, less-cluttered links.
Improvements Over Other Search Engines
  • The biggest advantage of using Duck Duck Go is that it omits parked/spam domains and provides suggestions when blocking them.
  • Includes category pages for example Communication disorders.
  • Includes keyboard shortcuts:
    • ↑ ↓,
    • Enter (go)
    • j k (arrow alts.)
    • / (search box).
  • Automatically detects and displays:
    • Phone Numbers
    • Tracking Numbers
    • Car Registration numbers
    • Zip Codes
    • Book (ISBN)
    • Product codes
    • Street addresses
    • IP addresses.

Extensions and Apps

FireFox Extension

Firefox now has a DuckDuckGo.com extension. This extension improves the quality of your search results by making use of Duck Duck go's search engine. Duck Duck Go gets rid of useless pages, parked and spam pages from search results.

The extensions thus saves you from 42 Million useless Web sites. Here useless Web sites are defined as sites with nothing but ads. If you're like most people, you've been to many of them from either search results in other search engines or by slightly mistyping Web addresses, e.g. yotube.com or facebok.com.

Duck Duck go has partnered with a firm, Ive Got a Fang on a project. The project identifies parked/spam domains. Thus these blocked domains have also been removed from Duck Duck Go's search results.

iPhone App

Duck Duck Go has brought the Duck search to the iPhone. This search app is optimized for the iPhone and is developed in collaboration with, CHS systems.

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Additional Information

Social Media

Twitter & FaceBook

Blogs and API

Contact

Feedback Form

For Bloggers

Related Domains

External Links





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