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joeblau ◴[] No.5878236[source]
I love DDG and I used it for 6 months but the problem I had is that when I was looking for things related to coding or Linux--it fell short. I would type in an error from Objective-c, Node.js, Java, JavaScript or Scala and nothing helpful would return. This forced me to return to Google which I ended up doing so often that I switched my default search engine back :(.
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hkmurakami ◴[] No.5878290[source]
have you checked out some of the !bang options available? I just took a look and here is a sampling of what you have available.

Sysadmin: !apache !awesome !bsd !chef !codeweavers !cookbook !cve !datasheet !distro !distrowatch !eventid !everymac !exex !exploitdb !filext !fsf !fsfe !funtoo !gdiag !gnomebugs !gnu !howtoforge (!htf) !ip !irp !iso !linode !linuxfr !linuxhcl !linuxmint !lxr !mysql !nginxwiki !openbsd !openbsdmisc !opensuse !oracle !osvdb !parabola !peppermintos !playterm !postgresql !psql !puppet !qth !salix !salixforums !sectube !senderbase !spice !splunk !sqlite !susebug !susepkg !technetlib !timestamp !tldp !trisquel !use !vmkb !vol !wog !zahe

Sysadmin (debian): !debbug (!dbugs) !debian !debianforums !debianfr !debml !debmla !debwiki !dfiles !dman !dpackages (!dpkg !dpts) !dtag !fanch

Sysadmin (FreeBSD): !bsdman !fports !freebsd !freshports !fxr

Sysadmin (Gentoo): !gbugs !gentoo !gentoowiki !gpackages !gwiki

Sysadmin (RedHat): !rbugs

Sysadmin (Solaris): !sunpatch

Sysadmin (Ubuntu): !askubuntu !docubu !docubufr !omgubuntu (!omgu) !ppa !puc !ubottu !ubuntuforums (!ubuntuf) !ubuntuusers !uman !upackages !upkg !uu !uude

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

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joeblau ◴[] No.5878373[source]
I didn't know about those. The thing about !bang options is that you have to know something more about the problem to know the appropriate place to look--And that's the whole point of a search engine. The search engine should determine if the best/most popular solution to my problem is on one of those !bang sites or if it's on koders.com.
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1. jggonz ◴[] No.5878425[source]
We're automatically detecting categories on blekko.com now. If you type in a programming question, it should return a category called /programming or /javascript, or whatever the language is you're looking for.

Examples taken from some stackoverflow posts:

http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNo...

http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter

http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20e...