Jackson Pollock's 100th birthday is on the January 28, 2012 (I know this is a little early), we should make a logo for him. I'm thinking either the DDG logo outline colored in with splatter paint, or the logo made up of splatter paint, if you get what I mean. Something like this:
I think a good idea for the future could be custom !bang commands. Meaning you choose the command for each !bang, so you could make !i take you to Photobucket, or have the !bang for YouTube !movies, or whatever you want. I just think this would be a cool idea, to be more customizable.
I made a LEGO version of the DDG logo with opc411, so I decided to recreate it on LEGO Digital Designer, a computer program for building LEGO models. I'll show you a picture, but you can only take screenshots with weird backgrounds if anyone knows how to crop out the logo, or get a clean screenshot from the original file (http://www.4shared.com/file/iVE-u65A/duckduckgo.html) please do.
When you search for something like http://duckduckgo.com/?q=beachland+ballroom, it brings up the 0-click info from Yelp, but it doesn't label the "Official Site." It looks like when you get 0-click info from Wikipedia it gets the "Official Site" from there, you should get the "Official Site" for these queries from Yelp.
When I use the DuckDuckGo iPhone app, and misspell something in my search, on the top it says, "Did you mean...?," as it should. But when I click that, nothing comes up, just a blank search result page.
I take it most people here know the results of Google tracking you mentioned in donttrack,us, e.g. your info coming up in background checks. But something else will happen. Google will manipulate your results and take out things they think you won't click on, based off your previous searches. Eli Pariser wrote a book, the Filter Bubble, about why this can be bad. This is another interesting side to the "Google tracks you" story that I felt like informing you guys on.
A lot of my peers don't use DDG because they think it has a virus, or they doubt that DDG doesn't track you. DDG needs a way to prove to people that it is legitimate.
I have found that on Chrome and Firefox, the search box edges are rounded (and is shaddowed). But on IE it's just pointy edges and no shadow. Just weird.
When I search the snippets are running into the things on the side, e.g. advertisement. I'm on IE, and it doesn't do it on Chrome or Firefox, haven't checked anything else.
In the settings when you change the link font and the text font the description under the title should be changed as text not the link. Even though it is technically a link, it makes more sense to be changed as text.
When I try to download the DuckDuckGo Add-On for Firefox it says "This search engine is not supported by Firefox and cannot be installed". Why is this happening?
I've wondered if you should say (well write) DuckDuckGo with no spaces, or Duck Duck Go with spaces. For instance, on here it says DuckDuckGo, but on many articles about DDG it says Duck Duck Go.