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I switched to DDG for the privacy, and a general desire to ensure that competitors to Google survive. But I've found I use the "bang" commands all the time. T
by __d 8y ago
I switched to DDG for the privacy, and a general desire to ensure that competitors to Google survive. But I've found I use the "bang" commands all the time.
Typing "w! foo" beats "wikipedia foo" every time.
- vvillena 8y agoFirefox/Chrome: You can right-click any search field on any web you visit and add it as a search engine, with the keyword of your choosing. I've been using "w foo" to directly search on English Wikipedia. It's half the characters! :)
- Freak_NL 8y agoThe advantage of Duck's bangs is that you don't have to install or configure anything beyond searching with DuckDuckGo. I've managed to guess the correct bang-abbreviation plenty of times (Urban Dictionary? ud, OpenStreetMap? osm, Hacker News? Guess!).
- Cyphase 8y agoI've also had 'w foo' as a keyword for years and years, along with many others for varying lengths of time. So convenient.