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with ddg set as default, i just type !hn google skews results into my address bar and i get the story

• sanderjd 10y ago
  What does the exclamation point do?
  • vmarsy 10y ago
    I think it forces the search to hacker news On google you'd type this for the same behavior: site:news.ycombinator.com google skews Except you don't need to, you can just type "hn" because google knows hn means you want the hacker news website results Duck duck go could provide the same behavior if they displayed the top search result of "!<first word> search" when I type "<first word> search" if it realizes <first word> is one of these popular keywords or a synonym
    • kiiski 10y ago
      It doesn't search HN, rather it redirects you to the search at hn.algolia.com. The same works for many other sites. So for example "foo doesn't work !so" redirects to Stack Overflow search for "foo doesn't work" and "Foo !wfi" redirects to Finnish Wikipedia search for "Foo".