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> That way anything that is not a URL is treated as a search query. And if your search query does look like a URL, you can just add the !ddg bang to it & you'l
by wallacoloo 10y ago
> That way anything that is not a URL is treated as a search query.
And if your search query does look like a URL, you can just add the !ddg bang to it & you'll be sent to DuckDuckGo instead of having your browser try to navigate to the URL! (At least, that's the only semi-legitimate use for !ddg that I can find - when else could it be used?)
Btw, you can also just use !w for Wikipedia.
- Freak_NL 10y ago> Btw, you can also just use !w for Wikipedia. Yeah, but there is one caveat; !w will send you to the Wikipedia language matching the region DuckDuckGo is currently set at. So if you just did a search with the regional limiter set to The Netherlands, !w will send you to the Dutch Wikipedia. This is not usually what you would want for non-regional information. Without the region set it does take you to the English Wikipedia. !wen is always the English Wikipedia.