<story><title>DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place</title><url>http://duckduckhack.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>DuckDuckGo wants you to write their vertical search engines.  Those are the things that provide weather, traffic, stock quotes, sports scores, and similar data as specialized search results.  Yahoo Search originated that concept, and now all search engines have to have it.&lt;p&gt;The vertical search engines you write go on Github, so someone could take all their verticals and put them into another search engine.  It&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;send us the code and then we own it&amp;quot;.  Might be worth it writing one if you need the exposure as a programmer.&lt;p&gt;DuckDuckGo is still under 1% search market share, though.</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place</title><url>http://duckduckhack.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emergentcypher</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I really understand what this is about. What exactly does DuckDuckGo want me to hack? Are people writing plugins to improve the search results of a for-profit company&amp;#x27;s proprietary search engine?</text></comment>