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nate-parrott / Flashlight

The missing Spotlight plugin system
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Move Quick web search over to DuckDuckGo #514

Open j-rieck opened 9 years ago

j-rieck commented 9 years ago

Currently, one of the most useful plugins, the quick web search, uses Bing search. The main issue with this is that the usage exceeds the free limit on the Bing API, and the preview is thus broken. The other issue is that Microsoft tracks the users just as much as Google does.

Therefore, I propose that the plugin gets rewritten to use DuckDuckGo as its search engine, as it has no limits on the API usage and doesn't track users.

Link to DuckDuckGo API.

Example search:

https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=42&format=json
smathieson commented 9 years ago

It would be better if the quick web search plugin has a setting to configure prefered search engine. Some of us like Google, Yahoo, etc...

cHemingway commented 9 years ago

@smathieson, Unfortunately neither Google or Yahoo provide a free public API for search, hence why the free tier of Bing was originally used.

As @jurgemaister states. DuckDuckGo has a free API with no usage limits, so that could be used instead.

smathieson commented 9 years ago

Ah, I see. Oh well. Personally I prefer Google but I suppose DDG is ok.