duckduckgo / zeroclickinfo-longtail

DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on full-text data

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zeroclickinfo-longtail's Issues

Stack Overflow: DIsplay error

See the screenshot below for the query:

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @zachthompson

MetroLyrics: Wrong result

Searching for "On the plane blackfield" brings up lyrics for a Ed Sheeran song.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics
Maintainer: @jdorweiler

ENH: Latest News

Suggestion:
Scrapping and displaying latest news: feature add-on

Stack Overflow - Code block not parsed correctly

The 0 in the beginning of a code-block is removed.

See this search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=crontab+every+2+hours&t=ffab&ia=qa

While in DuckDuckGo the IA appears like this:

The real StackOverflow answer in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6423532/how-to-run-cron-job-every-2-hours#9439129 is:

Seasoned Advice: not triggered for sample queries

The IA is not triggered for sample queries such as how to chop onions without crying.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/seasoned_advice
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

MetroLyrics: IA shows a fraction of the lyrics

I love the lyrics IA, but it's incredibly frustrating when I have to click on the "More at MetroLyrics" button to see the entire song. Why is the whole song not displayed when "+ Show More" is clicked? Would doing so violate DDG's agreement with MetroLyrics or is it simply an old design decision that needs to be fixed?

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics

IA for INDIA is showing an music album name

The IA for India shows an answer for an album named INDIA instead f the country INDIA which is on the top of the wikipedia search.

Additional Perl QA Sources

We have a large set of Perl queries which appear they may be answered by a QA resource (like perlmonks or stackoverflow) but aren't.

While there are triggering improvements we can probably make to existing IAs, are there other sources we should be querying?

Thanks!

Stack Overflow: searching for 'sublimetext performance' results in a wierd SO link

The SO result is showing wrong SO topic link and body text when searching for 'sublimetext performance':

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sublimetext+performance&ia=qa

I can't find the actual topic on SO.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow

Yoga Asanas API: display broken

Ashtangayoga.info images not displaying right posture.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/yoga_asanas_api
Maintainer: @zachthompson

Ask Ubuntu: Markdown not completely supported

Comments on AskUbuntu with Markdown tags (such as <b> </b>) are shown along with the tag instead of being parsed and rendered appropriately.
Example Query

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/ask_ubuntu

Main example for lyrics IA breaks when adding, "lyrics" to the search terms

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i%27m+a+walking+contradiction

vs.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i%27m+a+walking+contradiction+lyrics

MetroLyrics: show full lyrics on results

Currently, the result shows only first few lines of the lyrics. We could change the IA to show the full lyrics (all lines) on results?

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics
Maintainer: @jdorweiler

Stack Overflow: Update downloading method

Currently use the torrent which has a few drawbacks:

1. Downloads more files than necessary
2. Dependency on client

We should be able to download 7z files directly and potentially mirror so they aren't re-downloaded if unchanged.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Fuel Economy: IA doesn't trigger on fuel efficiency

@zachthompson IA doesn't trigger if I search 2004 toyota prius fuel efficiency. It does trigger if I replace efficiency with economy.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/fuel_economy

Stack Overflow: Question title should not be shortened

When I search for e.g. dynamodb check if record exists, I get response suggestion with title What is the best way to check if.... Actually, that question was about checking if table exists, not record - so it is unrelated, but it is not obvious because of cropped title.
Probably we should include whole title?

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Stack Overflow: bug when putting text in bold in the Q/A tab

I don't really know if it's relative to this module, but I never encountered this error somewhere else.

What is the bug ?

The function that put search keywords in bold also put in bold keywords... in the href tag of a link.
The text of the link is correctly formatted, however its linked URL looks like this:

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.linear_model.LogisticRegression.html

How can I reproduce the bug ?

Well, I made this request: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=logistic+regression+scikit&ia=qa

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Science Fiction and Fantasy: IA not triggered

The sample queries provided on IA page (origin of star wars) does not trigger the IA.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/science_fiction
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Stack Overflow: Code indentations messed up

In the few cases where Stack Overflow is triggered, I've noticed that the indentations in the sample code are not how they appear in the actual Stack Overflow site.

Example: while loop python

SO site

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Strange IA when searching "GCD 0"

I was just testing GCD calculation and then saw a strange IA on this search term "0 gcd". I don't know if I am right but the longtail generated on this search term doesn't seem fit for this query.

Unix: No longer triggering

This doesn't seem to be triggering any longer. None of the example queries from the IA page are triggering the IA.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/unix
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Stack Exchange: Displays wrong SE question on input 'traceroute names'

A search for traceroute names displays an instant answer with the correct title from a Unix SE question, but the body of an incorrect Tex SE question.

Interestingly, the ID of the correct Unix SE question is 21612, while the ID of the displayed Tex SE question is 21614.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Seth Baratono:

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/seth_baratono
Maintainer: @attackwombat

Stack Overflow: copy & paste

A user on DuckDuckGo left feedback that they can't copy and paste the output of the Stack Overflow IA.

Is there a way to enable users to copy the info directly out of the IA?

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @DDG

AndroidEnthusiasts: Should trigger more

There should be more triggers to find related Q/A threads for this IA. Searching "increase battery life android" doesn't trigger the example query "What can I do to increase battery life on my Android device."

Searching "Nexus 6P wrong time," an answered thread of the front page of the Android Enthusiasts page, doesn't show any IA.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/android_enthusiasts
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

Movies

Not currently returning any infobox, although, it may be triggering (I haven't really dug into it).

//cc @jagtalon

IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/movie_longtail

Stack Overflow: Consider ignored results with a signle downvoted solution

A search I tested: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=drupal+get+current+timezone+setting&ia=qa

It came up with an instant answer from the first SO link, however the only answer in that posting was a -1 downvoted response, not a confirmed answer to the question.

The resulting SO page with downvoted response which was highlighted: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8592879/how-do-i-correctly-display-time-in-drupal-using-the-date-module

In these cases, the best thing would be to flag and bypass that link and try the next if found in the search results.

Thanks!

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @DDG

Programmers StackExchange: Empty div creating poor vertical centering of content

Looks like there's an empty div with the class "c-base__links" below the "c-info__links" div that off-centering the content vertically.

This may be an issue on all StackExchange IAs. Can we remove these?

cc @moollaza
@abeyang , can you make sure that if this is part of the template we have it completely removed (unless of course it's necessary)?

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/programming_longtail

The links under "SOURCE" are broken

Hi,

Seems like the urls to this repo from almost all the instant answers are broken. The sources don't seem to exist here. Any clue where they are and if I can help fix it somehow?

-- http://duck.co/ia/view/super_user

test

https://duck.co/ia/view/latex

Stack Overflow - Collapsed answer with code block shows wrong characters

> character is shown as &g if StackOverflow answer with a code block is collapsed.
See the screenshot please:

"boost check throw" query was used.
Original StackOverflow answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15133259/boost-check-no-throw-how-to-get-exception-message-printed#16701468

Stack Overflow: HTML entities should not be decoded

I found this through https://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+infinite&ia=qa

HTML-entities inside <code>-tags from Stackoverflow are currently decoded even though they should not.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow

Lyrics: Small design bug + malformed hyperlink

The Lyrics IA squashes the artist and song name together on a mobile view/under 615px width

Going smaller the artist is correctly aligned underneath the song.

There's also an issue with a malformed song hyperlink - this applies to all lyrics

Arqade: h1 heading elements fill the entire IA

If the first line of an answer from Arqade is a <h1> element (# in markdown), it will fill the entire IA box on DuckDuckGo, leaving no space for the actual answer.

Example search: steam how to stop updates

Also, if the heading is longer than approximately 30 characters, all further characters will be chopped off.

A potential fix would be to make h1 headings smaller, display some of the text below them, or remove the heading entirely.

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IA page: https://duck.co/ia/view/arqade
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

MetroLyrics: Nop result for: "things aren't cooking in my kitchen lyrics"

Posted on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomhannen/status/625052876176556032

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics

Longtail defined enough for development?

I can't seem to find the actual definition of what data a Longtail plugin should deliver, is it still to early to be working on this type of plugin? I'd like to write one to provide access to the document library at http://docracy.com but don't want to start if the plugin type isn't defined yet.

All Longtails don't work anymore

The May redesign seems to have ignored the Longtails, basically meaning that lyrics and Quora answers are no longer displayed. Should probably be fixed

Stack Overflow Longtail - ^M added to answer

It seems that the longtail itself is live but not triggering. https://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
The only one that triggers at example queries is "BerkeleyDB Concurrency" and has some ^M characters. This longtail probably needs to be revisited.

StackOverflow IA example queries not working

The first two example queries on https://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow are not triggering the StackOverflow IA. Not entirely sure how the IA works, but there may be a problem with triggering, or maybe the data that used to be returned upon triggering is no longer there. @moollaza thoughts?

MetroLyrics: Bob Dylan song not showing

Lyrics are:
"don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
which is from Subterranean Homesick Blues

Query:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=don%27t+need+a+weatherman+to+know+which+way+the+wind+blows

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics

Stack Overflow: Relevancy issue between languages

This was brought up on Slack.

See, for example https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+convert+int+to+string+ruby&ia=qa - 'Ruby' is explicitly stated in the query but a result for 'C#' shows up - perhaps we should ensure we only display results for the correct language if specified?

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @duckduckgo

AndroidEnthusiasts:

Some example queries don't work (I don't know if only to me), like:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=android%20apk%20sd%20card&ia=qa
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+root+my+android+device

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/android_enthusiasts

Stack Overflow: Apply Python unexpected result

Query : "apply python" doesn't return description of Python's apply method as Query : "python apply" does, is it expected ?

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/stack_overflow
Maintainer: @DDG

Bicycles: No longer triggers

seems down - can't trigger

IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/bicycles

MetroLyrics: broken link on IA-Page

Back-End Files
Lyrics.pm

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics
Maintainer: @jdorweiler

MetroLyrics: Apostrophes are removed when displaying in DDG

This also affects capitalisation, for example the name "Gilbert O'Sullivan" becomes "Gilbert Osullivan"
Example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alone%20again%20naturally

I haven't checked but this may affect other characters as well, e.g. hyphens.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics

IA for StackOverflow doesn't show accepted answer (shows highest rated?)

For the query "python merge dicts" (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+merge+dicts&ia=qa) the accepted answer, which is also the correct and best answer, is not shown as the IA. A different answer, which shows lower quality code, is shown instead.

At time of writing, the accepted answer is only voted one point lower than the highest voted answer so the IA may change in the near future.

Test issue, please ignore

used for back-end tests within the Community Platform repo.

//cc @jbarrett

MetroLyrics: full lyrics in 'zeroclick box'

Hello,
Would adding option to show full lyrics in 'zeroclick box' be a problem? I know they are sometimes long, but it shouldn't be so horrible for user and even adding some scrollbar doesn't seem like a big deal.
That would be really helpful.
Thanks in advance and for all that's already done.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/lyrics

AndroidEnthusiasts:

------The Instant Answer is not appearing for the queries given over the instant answer overview page.

Empty Box is getiing displayed when typed the query

android apk sd card

IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/android_enthusiasts