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0 pointsTyr4214y ago0 comments

Ok, !python, in particular, sucks. So don't ! the python. Everything else is a plus though. !hoogle is awesome.

0 pointsTyr4214y ago0 comments

Ok, !python, in particular, sucks. So don't ! the python. Everything else is a plus though. !hoogle is awesome.

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tom972914y ago· 4 in thread

If you can't use it for all sites you want to search, then what's the point? I'm sure python isn't the only site with a bad search.

officemonkey14y ago

It just seems he used a useless search on purpose. The !w for wikipedia searches and the !v for youtube searches are as awesome as the !python is lame.

mgrouchy14y ago

Or he is a Python developer(I know I work with him). Searching the python docs or the Internet for some module is a pretty common use case.

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perigrin14y ago

I really have to ask if your point is that because a feature isn't universally useful it's automatically pointless?

tom972914y ago

I think that the approach that DDG is taking is wrong. Relying upon individual sites search engines isn't going to lead to uniform results because they are always going to vary in quality.

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