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Rohan Kumar 4c7d36e7cf
Use soft hyphens more judiciously
- Recommend others be careful with their use of soft hyphens, and test
  with NVDA. Poorly-placed hyphens can make words sound unclear.
- Dial back my use of soft hyphens to only what's necessary.
2022-06-19 16:23:17 -07:00

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DDG and Bing 2022-06-02T20:59:38-07:00 https://www.librepunk.club/@penryn/108411423190214816 how would html.duckduckgo.com fit into this? SocialMediaPosting @penryn@www.librepunk.club https://www.librepunk.club/@penryn

I was referring to crawlers that build indexes for search engines to use. DuckDuckGo does have a crawler---DuckDuckBot---but it's only used for fetching favicons and scraping certain sites for infoboxes ("instant answers", the fancy widgets next to/above the classic link results).

DuckDuckGo and other engines that use Bing's commercial API have contractual arrangements that typically include a clause that says something like "don't you dare change our results, we don't want to create a competitor to Bing that has better results than us". Very few companies manage to negotiate an exception; DuckDuckGo is not one of those companies, to my knowledge.

So to answer your question: it's irrelevant. "html.duckduckgo.com" is a JS-free front-end to DuckDuckGo's backend, and mostly serves as a proxy to Bing results.

For the record, Google isn't any different when it comes to their API. That's why Ixquick shut down and pivoted to Startpage; Google wasn't happy with Ixquick integrating multiple sources.

More info on search engines.