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As an aside, everyone should definitely try switching to DDG as their default for a day or two- in-line wikipedia info and the !bang system are really killer.
by colinplamondon 17y ago
As an aside, everyone should definitely try switching to DDG as their default for a day or two- in-line wikipedia info and the !bang system are really killer.
I've switched to it full-time, and just do !google blah when I need to do an image search. The !bang flexibility makes it fantastic, and !twitter searchterm and !flickr searchterm makes it feel like you have a half dozen search engines at your fingertips. Because you can still execute google searches, it's not really 'switching from Google'- it's just an improvement, plain and simple.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- rgrieselhuber 17y agoAnd a recent new feature let's you abbreviate !bang searches even more. For example, !g lets you search Google. I find that 9 / 10 queries work better for me on DDG and it's easy to use Google if necessary.
- aw3c2 17y agoI did that and documented my experiences with short comments over several months. Unfortunately I used XFCE's notes plugin, reinstalled my system and cannot find the text anywhere on the old system's disk. :-( My experiences have not been so great. Sometimes yes, but mostly not.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoI'd appreciate you emailing me your thoughts.
- Estragon 17y agoDoes DDG have a cognate to the google "site:" keyword?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoYup, site: should work.
- vorador 17y agoExcuse but, aren't search shortcuts already a feature of firefox ?
- colinplamondon 17y agoPossibly, but it's slow as hell in OSX compared to Safari.