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Duckduckgo is great. But also because the easy !g !gi !tw shortcuts to search in google or twitter as well. Surprised to find lately that a lot of my searches
by flurdy 7y ago
Duckduckgo is great. But also because the easy !g !gi !tw shortcuts to search in google or twitter as well.
Surprised to find lately that a lot of my searches only return relevant results in a twitter search.
- LandR 7y agoAlso w! for wiki. The bang commands are super useful.
- ojosilva 7y agoThat's a feature of most browsers location bar. Just assign a letter/string to any bookmark of your liking and voila! No need to depend on DDG and exclamation points for your quick searches. A few of my favorites include hn for HN's algolia, th for thesaurus, wes for Wikipedia in Spanish and d for... duck duck go.
- flurdy 7y agoThat is true. but my first search is always duckduckgo. Only if that doesn't tell me straight away to I go for a !bang search. The location bar now is filled with a ddg url so easier to just add ! to the search box of ddg. And as I switch machines, browsers, profiles, and privacy mode all day long the only ubuiqitous thing is that ddg is the default search engine. I don't use the !w shortcut as usually whatever/whomever I have searched for is in the info box on ddg's right-hand column and it usually has a wikipedia link if I need to get more detail.
- buboard 7y agoit's like using "reddit" on google to force it to be serious
- skinnymuch 7y agoWhy can’t you use location bar in your browser?