This is an interesting idea.

On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:35:07 UTC-5, Michele Comitini wrote:
>
> I am (quite) sure it does not. 
> Just putting down some ideas... 
>
> What would be nice is to have a search API that is consistent whether 
> data is local, remote or the internet.  One could set the "scope" of 
> the search (internet|remote|local).  A local search could have more 
> optional parameters since the engine is totally under control, but the 
> basic functionality could look identical.  i.e. same way to make the 
> query and same kind of returned data... 
>
> mic 
>
>
> 2012/8/7 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo....@gmail.com <javascript:>>: 
> > I am not sure duckduckgo has anything to do with full-text search of own 
> > data. 
> > 
> > perhaps we can integrate whoosh in DAL. 
> > 
> > perhaps we can add duckduckgo api search in contrib. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 11:52:36 UTC-5, Michele Comitini wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Massimo has already integrated whoosh to some extent. 
> >> Having a uniform search API layer in web2py is interesting, a matter 
> >> of discussion could be if the DAL interface could be extended to do 
> >> the task. 
> >> 
> >> mic 
> >> 
> >> 2012/8/7 Alec Taylor <alec.t...@gmail.com <javascript:>>: 
> >> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Massimo Di Pierro 
> >> > <massimo....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >> >> This is really nice. It is a single file and has simple APIs. Should 
> we 
> >> >> include it in contrib? 
> >> > 
> >> > It gets my vote! - Also, it would be good to get something similar to 
> >> > http://haystacksearch.org/ from Django at some point. 
> >> > 
> >> > But until then, defintely put this in contrib and add a paragraph to 
> >> > the documentation =D 
> >> > 
> >> >> On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 09:46:53 UTC-5, Michele Comitini wrote: 
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> A free search API.  I like this duckduckgo engine. 
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> api.duckduckgo.com 
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> https://github.com/crazedpsyc/python-duckduckgo/ 
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> mic 
> >> >> 
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