Re: duckduckgo

[Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () USU EDU>]

Hmm, it installed for me in Firefox 9.0.1 and is now my default search engine.  I didn't see any XML errors.

Bob Bayn          (435)797-2396            IT Security Team
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] on behalf of Kevin Shalla 
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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:03 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] duckduckgo

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,AAABAAEAEBAAAAEAIABoBAAAFgAAACgAAAAQAAAAIAAAAAEAIAAAAAAAAAAAANcNAADXDQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJyDsJmlk8pf6+v3s/v7+++zr/fcnIOyzJyDsgCcg7CYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnIOwBJyDscCcg7PZttJ7/7Pfs//////++xO7/S5GA/ycg7P8nIOz2JyDscCcg7AEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnIOwBJyDstScg7P8nIOz/Y8p5/2fHZf9Yv0z/YcF2/1rBUv8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOy1JyDsAQAAAAAAAAAAJyDscCcg7P8nIOz/JyDs/4jQoP/p9+n//////05X3v9LkYD/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7HAAAAAAJyDsJicg7PYnIOz/JyDs/zUu7f/+/v////////////89N+7/JyDs/yUo7f8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz2JyDsJicg7IAnIOz/JyDs/ycg7P9hXPH////////////t/P//GIr2/wfD+/8Gyfz/DKv5/yM57/8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7H8nIOyzJyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/jov1////////////Otz9/w3G/P8cWfH/JSvt/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOyzJyDs5icg7P8nIOz/JyDs/7u5+f///////////27l/v8E0v3/BNL9/wTQ/f8Oofn/IT7v/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs5icg7OYnIOz/JyDs/ycg7P/p6P3/uWsC////////////5fr//6Po/f8Thfb/DKv5/w6f+f8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7OYnIOyzJyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/9/b+/////////////////7lrAv/V1Pv/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOyzJyDsgCcg7P8nIOz/JyDs/8/N+///////////////////////iIX1/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDsfycg7CYnIOz2JyDs/ycg7P9FP+7/q6n4/+7u/f/n5v3/fXn0/yoj7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs9icg7CYAAAAAJyDscCcg7P8nIOz/wsD6/+no/f/Y1/z/eHTz/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7HAAAAAAAAAAACcg7AEnIOy1JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7LUnIOwBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJyDsAScg7HAnIOz2JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs/ycg7P8nIOz/JyDs9icg7HAnIOwBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJyDsJicg7IAnIOyzJyDs5icg7OYnIOyzJyDsgCcg7CYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA+B8AAPAPAADAAwAAwAMAAIABAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAACAAQAAwAMAAMADAADwDwAA+B8AAA==</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