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When I search !weather it ships me off to weather.com. I REALLY don't want that to happen. If I wanted to go there, I would have just typed in that URL.
by Consultant32452 7y ago
When I search !weather it ships me off to weather.com. I REALLY don't want that to happen. If I wanted to go there, I would have just typed in that URL.
- sp332 7y agoI don't see why it's worse. If you want to know what the weather is, why not go to a weather site? What's the advantage to seeing the same (or less) information on a search results page instead?
- nullspace 7y agoNot OP, but I was so happy when weather was built into google a few years ago. Weather.com is pure evil when it comes to tracking and clickbait. It's also slow as hell.
- sp332 7y agoYeah but I covered that in the second part of my comment. See https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=weather https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=weather
- Consultant32452 7y agoI guess this boils down to what is my goal. Here's two plausible goals from my perspective. I go to DDG and ask for it to give me a sample of some sources from which I could find the weather. This is a traditional search. Or, I could go to DDG and ask it for the current weather. This is what I really want. There's no scenario in which I already know which weather source I want to use, memorize its ! command, navigate to DDG, then enter that ! command. That's too many jumps. If I want the weather from weather underground or whatever, why would I ever go to DDG to start with?
- sp332 7y agoI have DDG as my default search engine, so I just type "!wu 01234" in my address bar. This basically skips the DDG navigation and UI entirely. I like this type of shortcut for Wikipedia and IMDB too. Anyway this is just a workaround for when the weather infobox doesn't automatically show up in the DDG UI, which it normally does.
- piffey 7y agoThere are over two dozens weather bangs. !wu = weather underground !owm = open weather map !nws = national weather service to name a few alternatives.