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ITT: DDG and bangs. For those of you who also don't use DDG or know what these !bangs are, a quick google search shows that it's a quick way to directly search
by volkk 9y ago
ITT: DDG and bangs. For those of you who also don't use DDG or know what these !bangs are, a quick google search shows that it's a quick way to directly search a website. !ebay motorcycle, would search ebay.com for...you guessed it--motorcycles.
my only question though is, why are these bangs so special when google does the same thing with `ebay.com: motorcycle`. Is it mainly the fact that DDG provides more privacy?
- detaro 9y ago> when google does the same thing with `ebay.com: motorcycle` That query does not send me to ebay?
- volkk 9y agogood point. does using a website's internal search engine outperform google scraping the site itself which i think `ebay.com: motorcycle` does?
- detaro 9y agoIt has a lot more site-specific tools available (e.g. with ebay filter by location, category, price, ...), so for me clearly "yes". Searching through ebay.com with Google might be useful in edge cases (e.g. to benefit from Google maybe having better fuzzy search), but is very different from using the actual UI. It's even clearer with things like wolfram alpha, which aren't indexable but respond to a specific query.