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I still have the opposite feeling. For a lot of things that I search, google still presents me more relevant results. Although DDG is catching up. Until recentl
by koonsolo 8y ago
I still have the opposite feeling. For a lot of things that I search, google still presents me more relevant results. Although DDG is catching up. Until recently, it always presented me with old.haxe.org results for some reason instead of the current version, but now it works fine.
The reason why DDG is my default url-bar search is because of the 'bangs'!g for google, !yt for YouTube, !w for Wikipedia and !t for thesaurus (when looking for variable names ;)), !gm for google maps, etc. Very handy.
- auiya 8y agoThe saving grace for DDG is search directors (bangs) and privacy shielding. Their problem however, is these are incredibly trivial things for Google to also implement.
- vatueil 8y agoCustom keyword searches are also natively supported by Firefox and Chromium-based browsers: - https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-search-from-address-bar https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-search-from-address-bar - https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426 - https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/24227/complete-guide-to-keyword-shortcuts-to-search-sites-in-google-chrome/amp/ https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/24227/complete-guide-to-keyw... You don't even need to type a 'bang' (!): just use whatever keyword you want. And you can add any search engine you'd like. Browser keywords are also handy for navigating to certain websites, not just searches. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s (or old.reddit.com if you prefer the old reddit UI) with a keyword such as 'rr', so that typing 'rr aww' in the address bar takes you to the /r/aww subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww https://www.reddit.com/r/aww