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Am I the only one that finds that the DDG’s bang commands actually make DuckDuckGo more useable than google, even for googles own products? E.g. it’s faster to
by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Am I the only one that finds that the DDG’s bang commands actually make DuckDuckGo more useable than google, even for googles own products? E.g. it’s faster to type in a location and append !gm after (which will cause DuckDuckGo to redirect immediately to searching within google maps itself) than it is to click around on google to bring the maps up? (Likewise for google express !ge google images !gi and especially YouTube !yt)
My only wish would be some way to customize them and add new ones as they almost make web browsing into using a command line (and what that would be like with aliases and adding scripts to PATH).
- jvolkman 8y agoI just use Chrome's address bar. "map<TAB>" enters a maps-only search. Same for "you<TAB>" for youtube, etc.
- dmix 8y agoOn mobile that's not possible though. !gi for image search is one I use often on mobile. But otherwise that's very true, I also use desktop Chrome's search engines as a keyword system (typing "ny" to launch https://nytimes.com https://nytimes.com), regardless if the URL actually includes a search query.
- nyolfen 8y agoffx also has this feature, you can right click in a search field and 'add keyword'. i distinctly remember thinking 'this would be a really cool feature' maybe 10 years ago and discovering that it was already there.
- aembleton 8y agoI use ddg but don't use bangs. Instead I have 'map' and 'wiki' set up as keyword searches in Firefox. Then all I have to type is 'map London' to search Google Maps for London. Just right click in a search box and you will see an 'Add a keyword for this search' option.