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simply searching "shoes amazon" will do the job, or if I really want to search a specific site one can easily do "shoes site: amazon.com" The search bangs take
by resu_nimda 10y ago
simply searching "shoes amazon" will do the job, or if I really want to search a specific site one can easily do "shoes site: amazon.com"
The search bangs take you directly to the search implementation of the site in question. Sometimes this is preferred to a Google search.
If you try "!amazon shoes" on DDG and "amazon shoes" on Google, you can see the difference. Basically, in any case where you would type something into a site's search box (instead of Google's), it saves you a click or from having to navigate to that site first.
- cisstrd 10y agoOh I see... just tried it, k, can see why some like that feature, I actually think it's something a search engine isn't supposed to do, but ok, thanks for the hint :)
- metasean 10y ago@neurobuddha has also been blogging about specific !bangs which is even more enlightening - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11773901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11773901 (his post is currently buried below, but he totally deserves all the karma!)
- emdd 10y agoor just "!a" for amazon.