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Duck Duck Go is a company that I want to succeed, as they are clearly making a stand on user privacy. However it never made sense to me why people would use th

Duck Duck Go is a company that I want to succeed, as they are clearly making a stand on user privacy. However it never made sense to me why people would use those DDG bangs. I mean privacy is the main selling point, so why in the world would you send the searches you make on other websites to DDG, when the browser is perfectly capable of being configured for "search keywords". In Firefox, go to amazon.com (or any website you want), right click on their search bar and select "Add a Keyword for this search...". Add "!a" or whatever you want. There, you've got your own bangs.

dredmorbius 9y ago
Not all browsers are configurable to search keywords (particularly on mobile). DDG is consistent across hosts / browsers / OSes. DDG maintain (and fix) the bang searches as they break (which ... happens). I appreciate being able to !bang away in my Android browser(s) navbars. There are other options. Surfraw (a Linux CLI utility) is an example, though my problem is that 1) I can't remember the aliases and 2) they interfere with other commands I use (there are ... a lot of surfraw elvi).