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I see DuckDuckGo as an improved search bar more than as a search engine, though it's admirably fast at the latter. DDG's bangs are effectively a CLI interface

I see DuckDuckGo as an improved search bar more than as a search engine, though it's admirably fast at the latter. DDG's bangs are effectively a CLI interface to web searches. !g does google, !yt does YouTube, !w does Wikipedia, !wa does Wolfram Alpha, !scholar does Google Scholar... Huge timesaver.

Crespyl 9y ago
It's interesting, since browsers have had custom keyword searches for ages, and I've known that and just never taken the time to set them up. Having DDG with its bangs I use them all the time, and if there's some specific new site that I want to search there's (so far) always been a fairly guessable bang already set up for it. I find it exceedingly convenient.