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Heck yeah! DDG results have gotten noticeably better in the past ~2 years. Side note - most browsers offer 'search shortcut' customization options, so you can
by Liquix 7y ago
Heck yeah! DDG results have gotten noticeably better in the past ~2 years.
Side note - most browsers offer 'search shortcut' customization options, so you can start an address-bar search with !g or !b or whatever to seamlessly swap to your fallback(s).
- sli 7y ago> Side note - most browsers offer 'search shortcut' customization options, so you can start an address-bar search with !g or !b or whatever to seamlessly swap to your fallback(s). While you indeed can configure browsers to do this, I think you may be erroneously attributing a DDG feature to -- or duplicating a DDG feature in -- your browser, because those are built in DDG bang commands.
- rahuldottech 7y agoI know for a fact that Firefox can also implement bangs like Duckduckgo out of the box, although you have to manually set it up.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoThey used to have some default keywords, "g", "w", etc. (you enter "g key words" to search Google for the keywords. If they're not default anymore they're very easy to do. I like the way Chrome shows it has recognised the keyword after you press space though, neat feedback, good design IMO.
- cpeterso 7y agoFirefox has a few builtin keyword searches like "@g" (Google) and "@w" (Wikipedia): https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/cfd1cc461f1efe0d66c2fdc17c024a203d5a2fd8/toolkit/components/search/SearchEngine.jsm#500-511 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/cfd1cc461f1efe0d66...
- Symbiote 7y agoThis was a feature in Opera from something like 2002. That browser was ahead of its time.
- Drdrdrq 7y agoKonqueror was even further ahead. After you searched for something via search engine and then opened a page, it offered you buttons which could be used to search for those same terms on the result page. Very useful, but never saw it elsewhere.