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It was these that won me over: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html . Most of the time I know what general sort of thing I'm looking
by randrews 16y ago
It was these that won me over: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html . Most of the time I know what general sort of thing I'm looking for, and I'm happy to give the search engine hints if it'll help. Even if I don't, it'll essentially flat-out ask me what sort of thing I want, and then give me more specific results: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ruby http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ruby
But, I mean, I'm doing all this by typing it into Chrome's address bar. And a lot of the time, DDG is just returning results from Google's API. I want to use DDG, but I want to make sure Google still exists because I need it even if I don't use it.
- bad_user 16y agoI just use the browser, instead of the !bang feature in Duck Duck Go. Chrome / Firefox have the option of adding a search shortcut. For instance I type "py package-name" for searching inside Python's index, or "am product" for searching in Amazon, or "w something" for searching Wikipedia, or "t some words" for doing a google translate, or "hn something" for searching Hacker News. Chrome even does these shortcuts automatically, so you can just "amazon.com android" and it will do a search on amazon; although in Firefox it is easier to add your own.
- T-hawk 16y agoFWIW, Opera has this too, and in fact had it first, by about 2005.