Generate QR codes with DuckDuckGo

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qr+code+the+rain+in+spain

by eksith • 13 years ago

37 16 13 years ago

ozh2• 13 years ago

Since a mention in HN a couple weeks ago I've been using the DDG extension for Firefox, and love it: even if you're not using DDG as a search engine, it adds very cool insights to Google result pages.

eksith2• 13 years ago

I'm finding a lot of my information without even needing to visit a page. A bit like Google's info-boxes, I can get quick answers to a lot of things without hassle.

The one area it could be a bit better is for some things that are slightly esoteric or articles that are very new. I just search with "!g" added to the query and get those via redirect (of course, that does negate privacy a bit since results are from Google).

nikolaplejic2• 13 years ago

You can always use "!s" to fetch the results through startpage.com, which anonymizes your Google query.

SunboX2• 13 years ago

Offtopic: Is there any way to read QR codes via JavaScript? Something like ZBar?

eksith2• 13 years ago

There's one for HTML5 https://github.com/LazarSoft/jsqrcode . I haven't really tried it though.

SunboX2• 13 years ago

Looks nice! Thanks, will try that one. :) Btw, found a JS barcode reader today. Didn't try it: https://github.com/EddieLa/BarcodeReader

BtM909• 13 years ago

/sarcastic-mode: and for what reason? For the 3 people that still use QR? :P

GotAnyMegadeth• 13 years ago

http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/

consultant23522• 13 years ago

I was wondering this myself.

ozh2• 13 years ago

yeah arguably that particular example wasn't very useful, but there are dozens which really rock: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies

_zekiel• 13 years ago

We're (DuckDuckGo) happy to see the response to this! Our instant answers are open source and we'd love to have one for every possible search, no matter how niche.

If anyone's interested in suggesting or creating an instant answer, check out: http://duckduckhack.com/

Also--to see most of the current IAs, look here: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies

prezjordan• 13 years ago

Adding onto this (I don't work for DDG), seriously check out the zeroclickinfo project[0] if you're looking to do some open-source over the coming holidays. I wrote a SoundCloud instant answer[1] and it was my first contribution to open-source (a little less than a year ago).

That one pull request led to many others that have opened a lot of doors for me. It's a super approachable codebase and I had a lot of fun with it.

[0] https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Music/soundcloud_ray_bradbury

kafkaesque• 13 years ago

Are there different sizes available or just 100x100?

btbuildem• 13 years ago

looks like the size depends on the length of your input -- capped at some max value

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