Extra Future[Straight from the Apple’s mouth.][link] It’s already in the Safari betas! This is great news. I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my search provider for awhile now, and their new design is the bees knees.
Unlike some other search engines they aren’t in the business of selling your personal data.
[link]: https://duck.co/blog/safari “DuckDuckGo in Safari”
[DuckDuckGo’s totally-overhauled site looks and feels great.][link] They replaced Google as my default search engine a year or so ago, and I haven’t regretted it for a second. [Here’s how to add them to Safari.][safari]
[link]: https://duck.co/blog/whatsnew “DuckDuckGo Reimagined & Redesigned”
[safari]: https://duck.co/help/desktop/safari “Adding DuckDuckGo to Safari”
[A response to so many new frameworks keeping much of their data on the client-side:][link]
>Lunr.js is a small, full-text search library for use in the browser. It indexes JSON documents and provides a simple search interface for retrieving documents that best match text queries.
[link]: https://github.com/olivernn/lunr.js “olivernn/lunr.js · GitHub”
[Jesper answers my call][link]. Makes sense, now.
[link]: http://waffle.wootest.net/2009/07/29/pr-speak-msft-yhoo-bing/ “waffle → Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Microsoft and Yahoo!’s Joint Choice. Value. Innovation. Announcement About Sharing Search Engine and Advertisement Technology”
[Earlier today Yahoo and Microsoft signed a 10 year deal][deal] which sees Yahoo not developing any new search technologies, and using Bing for it’s algorithms. Like most of you, I fail to see how reducing the main Search players from 3 to 2 creates “more innovation”, but does anyone even read these press releases anymore? [The official site for the deal][site] is begging for a PR-Speak-To-English translation.
Also important: [What happens to BOSS, Delicious, Search Monkey and Yahoo’s other search products][link]? (via [Andy Baio][andy])
[link]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_of_yahoo_news_delicious_boss_more_innovation.php “Yahoo’s Bing Deal Puts Delicious, BOSS & More at Risk”
[site]: http://www.choicevalueinnovation.com/thedeal/Default.aspx “Press Site for the Deal”
[andy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy”
[deal]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/its_official_microsoft_and_yahoo_announce_search_deal.php “Microsoft and Yahoo announce search deal”
[The Yahoo! Query Language is strange][link].
[link]: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/07/yql_insert.html “YQL: INSERT INTO internet (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)”
[Searching for “sex” returns the phrase “the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.”][link] Meanwhile, [according to Google Trends, nobody searches for “sex” more than India][google].
[link]: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/06/2338233/Microsofts-Bing-Refuses-Search-Term-Sex-In-India?from=rss “Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Microsofts Bing Refuses Search Term “Sex” In India”
[google]: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex “Google Trends: Sex”