If you search for Linux on Duckduckgo the icon changes to a penguin

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Proper_Dig_6618@reddit

That’s coooool 🐧🔥 Love when little details like that make a difference!

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Huge_Leader_6605@reddit

So that's what they mean when they say "year of Linux on desktop"?

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Jemie_Bridges@reddit

Although ironically they boost Linux is seeing this year is mostly handhelds. And of course Server dominance. And internet of things. Pretty much anything BUT desktop.

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RhubarbSimilar1683@reddit

hopefully, with the success of linux on gaming handhelds a linux gaming laptop will be released

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MohSilas@reddit

There’s a desktop mode on every mobile browser + rotate your phone horizontally and refresh if it didn’t show up

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AdRoz78@reddit

wonder what other secret phrases they have.

there's also pirate

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kiradotee@reddit

Lol why did they remove the link https://duckduckgo.com/dist/logos/dynamic/

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Prize_Army_4888@reddit

Doesn't seem like that was ever a website
Wayback just shows a list of all images contained in that "folder"

They must be listed somewhere though as wayback would have needed to crawl them

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ILikeBumblebees@reddit

They must be listed somewhere though as wayback would have needed to crawl them

No, it just snapshotted public-facing DDG pages that include image links to the individual files.

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Prize_Army_4888@reddit

That sounds like they're listed somewhere to me :)

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ILikeBumblebees@reddit

They're listed on archive.org, because archive.org creates lists of the files it indexes.

DDG doesn't display directory listings, and archive.org is just listing all of the files it individually scraped from one-off snapshots of search pages.

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ILikeBumblebees@reddit

They didn't. There was never a publicly viewable directory listing there. The previous link is to the Wayback archive that lists all of the files that have been individually indexed under that path.

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The_Adventurer_73@reddit

There's a Nyan Cat one I think Search Engines should've stopped developing at that point we were complete.

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AdRoz78@reddit

and astronaut oh my god there's so many

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colt_bsreal@reddit

and github and superman and hulk and zeus

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Comfortable_Swim_380@reddit

And my cousin's blade And this thing. Calls himself a golem.I think hes a tiny malnurished bridge troll. Were not sure yet

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AdRoz78@reddit

no, the whole trio. Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charizard

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ibbbk@reddit

I always started with Bulbasaur. Apparently it was super op and I didn't knew it at the time.

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miversen33@reddit

Who would you choose?

A) Little green shit with a bulb growing on its back
B) Little blue turtle fuck
C) A fucking dragon that could fight Godzilla

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kevidoplz@reddit

Why would they have Charizard instead of Charmander if they aren't going to do Venusaur or Blastoise

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Manarcahm@reddit

charizard more recognisable than charmander, who the fuck starts with charmander?

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Comfortable_Swim_380@reddit

I love that your mind went there. lol

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ThrowAway233223@reddit

Here are some others I found that work that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Link, Pacman, Kirby, Sonic, Sherlock, Gandalf, Darth Vader, Yoda, Popeye, Avatar, Superman, Batman, Joker, Riddler, Wonder Woman, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Spider-man, Deadpool, Wolverine, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Zeus, Hercules, Chef, Firefighter, Surgeon, Astronomer, Swimmer, Alien

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Hewlet26@reddit

And Harry potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore (I'm surprised they didn't ask his full big name), Severus Snape, Voldemort. Guys if there are more please correct me.

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ok-this-ok@reddit

cowboy!

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ThrowAway233223@reddit

I'm surprised I forgot to check Harry Potter characters. Dobby works as well, btw.

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Hewlet26@reddit

Oh my God. Thanks bruh. Btw check out that other guy who has the link to all of them.

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ThrowAway233223@reddit

No problem and I saw. I actually edited my earlier comment to link to theirs.

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Big-Ergodic_Energy@reddit

Thank God it didn't do goatse

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THPSJimbles@reddit

Ash Ketchum is my favourite one so far.

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giftedearth@reddit

A closer look using this listing shows that the Minecraft duck isn't just blocky; it's got the texturing, meaning that it looks like it was made from sand blocks. Cute.

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efbir@reddit

Steve Jobs, GitHub

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wootybooty@reddit

Wow, it took this to get me to finally switch to DuckDuckGo, my life’s priorities…

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AdRoz78@reddit

yeah, for me it was being able to turn off the ai slop google has

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snipy67@reddit

I stumbled across hydra

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kjwon15@reddit

terminator

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Personal-Indication4@reddit

Try avatar

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anatomiska_kretsar@reddit

There was one which you could ask what the mascot/duck’s name was, and it would give you a “Hey, I’m Dax” speech bubble as the first response

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pittji@reddit

my favorite is terminator

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cookiesandwich11@reddit

Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde also works

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ogerx@reddit

and joker

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D3PyroGS@reddit

funny enough, penguin does not trigger this

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suszuk@reddit

Freebsd too

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IamDev18@reddit

Well I'll be damned, first real post on reddit

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TechnoWarriorPL@reddit

faktycznie xD

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GreenRestaurant9825@reddit

Aslo work with "GNU", "FreeBSD" and "OpenBSD"

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SEI_JAKU@reddit

Neat touch, especially since DDG is based on Bing. Once again, I'm thinking we're getting dangerously close to a certain timeline...

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Jemie_Bridges@reddit

It does work on phones. Huh wonder if it works on tablets?

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Agitated-Fisherman76@reddit

Verdade .

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spatUNC@reddit

search "GNU"

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Neon_44@reddit

Funny, "Link" works but "Zelda" doesn't.

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Jean_Mak@reddit

Zelda works now ;)

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Neon_44@reddit

duckduckgo lurking in this community confirmed

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Admiral_DJ@reddit

Only on the desktop version though not on mobile

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naive_wanderer@reddit

Cool!

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MatmarSpace@reddit

Woow! :3

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danteVarior@reddit

good draft

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StmpunkistheWay@reddit

Lol, there goes the next hour of my day... haha

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Dunkaroos4breakfast@reddit

But not the favicon? That's it, I'm switching to Alta Vista.

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Maykey@reddit

DDG is spying on our searches!

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ampersandDown@reddit

The Dax Duck Dex shows all those found by community members: https://www.makdulac.com/daxduckdex

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Kryptonline@reddit

Hydra is fantastic

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0tus@reddit

Just tried it. Love that one.

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Otherwise_Rabbit3049@reddit

Since they are trying to find the things, I'm guessing there's no way to just open the DDG image directory somehow?

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ILikeBumblebees@reddit

No, but if some archive happened to scrape DDG lots of times...

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Tblue@reddit

Usually directory listings are disabled for security reasons (or the backend might not even support "easy" directory listings).

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Hewlet26@reddit

OMG you are an absolute goat bro.

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token_curmudgeon@reddit

Looks like a Google Chrome thing. Doesn't do that in Firefox.

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_TomSeven@reddit

You need desktop view active

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Otherwise_Rabbit3049@reddit

Works in my Firefox and Floorp.

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magicalMusical@reddit

what, no?

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knappastrelevant@reddit

No it doesn't.

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Human-Equivalent-154@reddit

skill issue

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knappastrelevant@reddit

Actually I had to enable JS from the DDG landing page, it wasn't enough to enable it after I had done a search.

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wick3dr0se@reddit

You should already have JS enabled for DDG or you won't be able to see the Images tab among other things

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knappastrelevant@reddit

One of the selling points of DDG is that it works without JS.

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Irverter@reddit

It is? Never heard of that.

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Human-Equivalent-154@reddit

Yeah they have an JS free version https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/

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cferg296@reddit

You lied to me

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h4crm@reddit

tuxtuxgo

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Takemitchi-kun@reddit

Runs on Linux, FreeBSD and nginx. It has a devil mascot if you type FreeBSD :)

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The_Adventurer_73@reddit

Yeah I was looking for where to download the Linux Kernel for funsies so I just looked up Linux, got the Uncanny Valley for a moment.

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Dangerous-Badger5151@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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Bagoral@reddit

Cool feature, but still sad that's it's only by searching terms, & not the returns of their "doodles" w/ logo changes depending of the event, like they used to a decade ago. That's how I discovered Edgar Allan Poe.

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DeadlyMohitos@reddit

r/lies

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Waakaari@reddit

It works in desktop site

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knappastrelevant@reddit

Not for me. Maybe it's geo-restricted.

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magicalMusical@reddit

do you see it

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heywoodidaho@reddit

I do indeed. Penguin penguin go?

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penguin-pc@reddit

r/confidentlyincorrect

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Technology_Labs@reddit

Look at that flair: "fluff"

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0x006e@reddit

Its not bluff

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Technology_Labs@reddit

I see

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ForThe90@reddit

Omg, I've tried so many from this comment section and they work. I neer knew and I've been using duckduckgo for years. I clearly search for the wrong stuff or don't pay enough attention 😂

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Lawnmover_Man@reddit

That's so cool! I hope they don't sell my data, just as the boys over at "don't be evil"-company, with their awesome doodles!

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Irverter@reddit

"don't be evil"-company

They stopped using it in 2015 and then removed it in 2018 for a reason.

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Otherwise_Rabbit3049@reddit

Related, Youtube also advised against using one's real name at first for security reasons. Now they REALLY want to know who you are, doing a 180.

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Irverter@reddit

Ahh, the times when the internet was anonymous and everyone was just a username...

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geeshta@reddit

More like DuckDuckGOAT

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otterpop21@reddit

Shhhhh

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Minecodes@reddit

Sadly, it only works on the desktop... I tried it on mobile, and it displayed the normal DDG icon

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Special_Resolve3670@reddit

I wish stuff like this worked on the mobile versions of the app

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LabEducational2996@reddit

Yes, try freebsd and openbsd too

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cestefesta@reddit

😈

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Jean_Luc_Lesmouches@reddit

Although it's barely visible because of the background.

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__konrad@reddit

https://duckduckgo.com/dist/logos/dynamic/freebsd.png

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Otherwise_Rabbit3049@reddit

Any way to get the whole collection from there - without typing every single possible thing?

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cestefesta@reddit

🐧

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EmojieOnly@reddit

I thought they didn't track your searches?

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SaltProfessor3582@reddit

You think showing your search results tracks you?

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BurningEclypse@reddit

Who said anything about tracking? Just because they know what you search at that moment doesn’t mean they are logging and keeping track of what you do. They need to know what you searched at that moment so that they can give you the results

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-light_yagami@reddit

i guess it’s just a simple “if query is x display x icon”

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47-BOT@reddit

so cool , best search engine.

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tremendoculaso@reddit

They are still censoring stuff, nice penguinwashing tho.

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Darth_Caesium@reddit

What are they censoring? I'd like to know.

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tremendoculaso@reddit

They banned "russian propaganda", but you can still search for US, North Korean, UK or Chinese propaganda.

I'm mature enough to see russian propaganda and i don't think DDG should act as my parents or something.

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Kevinw778@reddit

DDG is God-awful.

People only use it because it's, "Not Google". I've never had decent search results with it. It got to the point where I was just using Google like 75% of the time instead, so just went fully back to Google.

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