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Seconding this. DDG is awesome. The zero-click info is often very nice, I love the keyboard shortcuts (though there's a google keyboard shortcuts experiment), a
by jackowayed 16y ago
Seconding this. DDG is awesome. The zero-click info is often very nice, I love the keyboard shortcuts (though there's a google keyboard shortcuts experiment), and !bang[1] is really awesome. There's a bunch of other occasionally-useful goodies[2]. It'll do disambiguation if you search something with many meanings (eg. Ruby). Infinite pagination.
I switched a month or 2 ago, and I've been very happy. And if I search for something and don't like the results, I hit / (the keyboard shortcut to select the text of the search box), hit right-arrow (to get my cursor to the end of the search box), add a "!g" to the end, and hit enter. And then I usually find that google's results are just as bad :)
1: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
2: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
- mmmmax 16y ago!bang is the most useful search feature since I'm Feeling Lucky. I submitted this exact feature to Google years ago, and DuckDuckGo's implementation of it caused me to switch search engines.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoThx! Note that we've had I'm Feeling Ducky through !bang for a while (!+space+sarch), but the last few days I've made it even easier. You can now do /+search, e.g. /slashdot or whatever. Also all the !bang commands now will take you right to the site if you don't follow them with a search, e.g. !a takes you to amazon.
- mmmmax 16y agoNice work, as usual, Gabriel.
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoMeh. I don't see the point of using !amazon, for instance, when I already have a search in firefox for the same thing. Just 'o a foo' (as I'm using vimperator) and I'm on amazon.
- nowarninglabel 16y agoOr just set a shortcut key to a search box (e.g., a for amazon's search), and you can shorten that to 'a foo'.