zeroclickinfo-fathead

DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files

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DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files

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duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies · linked in 2 of the same discussions
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice · linked in 2 of the same discussions

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Observed mentions: 2012-03-29 14:46:53 UTC to 2017-09-11 03:18:21 UTC.

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2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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tagawa·Sep 11, 2017

The Instant Answers are all on GitHub but in four separate repos which, I agree, can be confusing. * https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies - "Goodies" which are generally static answers such as cheat sheets, colour picker or unit conversions. * https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice - "Spice" for using public APIs, e.g. weather, transport status or currency conversions. * https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead and https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-longtail - "Fathead" and "Longtail" are less common and are for text lookups, e.g. of programming docs. Disclaimer: DuckDuckGo staff

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moollaza·Oct 4, 2016

FWIW, you can also write the documentation parsers (Fathead type Instant Answers) in Python, and Ruby For example, here is a parser for the Python docs, written in Python: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead/blob/mas... and the same for Ruby: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead/blob/mas...

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prakash·Oct 28, 2012

Please check github: - https://github.com/duckduckgo - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies Some of these are listed on our Goodies page: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies/ New plugins are announced on http://twitter.com/duckduckhack Feedback welcome.

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epi0Bauqu·Mar 29, 2012

Thank you all! (I'm the founder.) In response to a lot of the comments here, please know that two major things we're working on are better programming queries (https://duckduckgo.com/tech.html -- one of my new favorites https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+picasa) and speed. For speed, just this week we upgraded our whole caching system, which should significantly speed up a lot of queries. I'd be interested to know if anyone has noticed any difference over the past day or so. This change should equalize a lot of the location differences, which is the main issue. In some parts of the world we were way slower. Also, for anyone wanting to get involved we've been open sourcing more and more (https://github.com/duckduckgo). We're working on better entry points, but one could start here now: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki. F

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or programming documentation in particular, this is the repo: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead. That will answer queries like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perl+split On the back-end we could also use some sysadmin help :). Here's our hiring info: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387 Of course, we're also always looking for feedback, the more detailed/specific the better: https://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html

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