fseek.me

I was lately looking for a better search engine to use (can’t stand Google anymore) and I recently found one that I really liked: http://duckduckgo.com. Yes, funny name, but they have the features that I was looking for:

• Privacy -Your searches are private! I don’t need to say more
• It looks at Sourceforge and other software repositories and show its results first (perfect for FOSS users).
• Good categorization
• Awesome for searching C functions! (details later)

Awesome, no? And no, I am not making any money from them, I just loved the product. Now, to the searches. Let’s compare a few of them with Google.

Let’s search first for “tux+racer” on Duck Duck go (I was looking for it this morning):

Very good description from Wikipedia at the top, describes what Tux is and categorizes it properly under the open source video game. In the “feeling ducky”, it sends to the download page. Perfect! Now search for it on Google… It shows the right results, but without any good description and too much cluttered.

Now, that’s what I loved. Search for “fseek” (or any C function). DDG beats Google easily…It shows that “fseek is a C function belonging to the ANSI C standard library, and included in the file stdio.h”, links to the C++ library reference, and if you go to their categorization, you will see everything about related C functions. Awesome! On Google, they just point a bunch of man pages…

That’s what sold me. If you like it too, they even have a spread page if you want to help them out: http://duckduckgo.com/spread.html