Re: duckduckgo

[Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

Thanks, even better.

On 1/26/2012 9:15 AM, Tim Doty wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 10:11 -0500, Isabelle Graham wrote:
> > I haven't seen that and I'm using the same browser but I installed it in
> > a slightly different way. There's a button in the bottom right-hand
> > corner of the page (it's grey text on white button, so kind of hard to
> > see) that should say "Firefox" (in Chrome it will say "Chrome"). If you
> > click on this it will give you a pop-up with a link to the DuckDuckGo
> > search engine add-on (which is SSL by default, also nice). Maybe give
> > that a try?
> SSL is nice but, if you're like me, you may want to use the lite version
> of the search that is javascript free. Just wanted to point that out.
>
> Tim Doty
>
> > Isabelle Graham
> > Information Security Engineer
> > American University
> >
> > On 2012-01-26 10:03, Kevin Shalla wrote:
> > > I use Firefox 9, and when I follow the path for what I think should add
> > > a search engine
> > > - choose select search engine drop-down list, Manage Search Engines...
> > > ->  Get more search engines... then search on duckduckgo, then press the
> > > Download Now button for DuckDuckGo SSL Search Engine (HTTPS), I get the
> > > following. Has anyone overcome this problem?
> > > Other add ons work fine.
> > >
> > > This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated
> > > with it. The document tree is shown below.
> > > <OpenSearchDescription><ShortName>DuckDuckGo
> > > (SSL)</ShortName><Description>Search DuckDuckGo
> > > (SSL)</Description><InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding><LongName>DuckDuckGo
> > > SSL Search</LongName><Image height="16" width="16"
> > > type="image/x-icon">data:image/x-icon;base64,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!
>
>   gC
> > 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</Image><Url
> > > type="text/html" method="get"
> > > template="https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}"/></OpenSearchDescription>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/25/2012 1:00 PM, Isabelle Graham wrote:
> > > > I've been using it for a while now (for various reasons) and I really
> > > > like it. For those of you that keep cookies between sessions, they
> > > > have some really nice options [http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html]
> > > > and their bang syntax is a nice feature
> > > > [http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html]. Definitely recommended.
> > > > Now I just need a good free web-based email alternative...
> > > >
> > > > Isabelle Graham
> > > > Information Security Engineer
> > > > American University
> > > >
> > > > On 2012-01-25 13:40, Solem, Vik P. wrote:
> > > > > On 2012-01-25 12:20 , "Steve Bohrer"<skbohrer () SIMONS-ROCK EDU>  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Martin Manjak wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Time to switch your default search engine.
> > > > > > https://duckduckgo.com
> > > > > Wow! Nice! I like it. Fast. No ads.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Perhaps promising, though I've not used it much yet, so can't vouch
> > > > > > for the quality of search. The main idea they are selling is that they
> > > > > > don't retain user data:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html
> > > > > I like it even better.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > It would be nice if this idea catches on as a valuable thing to look
> > > > > > for in online services.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes. I just changed my Google Chrome instance to use it as the default
> > > > > search engine. I'll see how it goes. Might just have to change over my
> > > > > other machines/browsers.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks again.
> > > > >
> > > > > -Vik
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Vik Solem, CISSP, Sr. Applications Risk Consultant
> > > > > Tufts University, Information Security, vik.solem () tufts edu /
> > > > > 617-627-4326
> > > > > InfoSec Team: information_security () tufts edu / 617-627-6070