This is the only reason I still have to go back to Google a lot. When I'm searching for some programming language help/tutorial, I mostly use the last year (!gyear in DuckDuckGo to take you to google with 1 year search), since I don't want to be seeing how to do implement something for my app in Android 1.6 or Python 2.0 (for instance).
I didn't know about !gyear. Thanks for sharing. I have a blog dedicated to testing Duck Duck Go bangs (some are broken) and showcase the best ones: http://duckgobang.com/
That subdomain seems to have a CNAME to results.duckduckgo.com which in turn has a CNAME to duckduckgo.com. Could they not have used yahoo.duckduckgo.com instead?
Yahoo owns and controls the DNS of yahoo.net - the DNS settings for duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net could be changed anytime by Yahoo - is that correct?
It says in the post that "To get access to the most relevant Yahoo technology, due to contractual obligations that call has to be associated with a Yahoo domain, in this case, duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net."
I'm curious about these contractual obligations. It seems Yahoo is making a lot of effort to ensure compatibility with DDG and its users, why insist on a trivial hostname matter?
Here I am moving emails and stuff out of Yahoo due to it's impending doom. Then, I see a company announce a stronger partnership with them. Hard to say if it's a good thing or bad thing. Maybe good so long as they have backup option they can practically flip a switch on. Thought they were using Yandex. So they're probably fine.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 27.9 ms ] threadThis is the only reason I still have to go back to Google a lot. When I'm searching for some programming language help/tutorial, I mostly use the last year (!gyear in DuckDuckGo to take you to google with 1 year search), since I don't want to be seeing how to do implement something for my app in Android 1.6 or Python 2.0 (for instance).
That subdomain seems to have a CNAME to results.duckduckgo.com which in turn has a CNAME to duckduckgo.com. Could they not have used yahoo.duckduckgo.com instead?
Yahoo owns and controls the DNS of yahoo.net - the DNS settings for duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net could be changed anytime by Yahoo - is that correct?
I'm curious about these contractual obligations. It seems Yahoo is making a lot of effort to ensure compatibility with DDG and its users, why insist on a trivial hostname matter?