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I experience the same problem as a fairly novice programmer who doesn't always know the right term to stick into DDG/google. >It's gotten to the point where I
by ImaCake 7y ago
I experience the same problem as a fairly novice programmer who doesn't always know the right term to stick into DDG/google.
>It's gotten to the point where I almost always automatically bang out to Google for those types of searches.
But this is why I stick with DDG, because it is very very easy to check elsewhere with a two letter bang. Even if I never used DDG search it would still be valuable to use DDG with bangs for wikipedia, google, youtube, etc.
- dmoy 7y agoCan't every web browser do this with keyword prefixes?
- frosted-flakes 7y agoSure, but you have to configure it to do that. There are bangs for pretty much everything, and I can usually guess them easily enough. !wayback is a favourite of mine.
- ryantgtg 7y agoI’ve been using DDG for years, but sometimes i wonder if it’s just Bing with bangs. I haven’t exhaustively crosschecked this, but the results seem to very closely match Bing’s. They say they use results from a few engines. I wonder what the percentage per engine is.
- ensignro2340 7y ago>Even if I never used DDG search it would still be valuable to use DDG with bangs for wikipedia, google, youtube, etc. I love this about ddg. I watch to a lot of YouTube videos, and being able to just type “!yt search terms” is just too useful.
- ulucs 7y agoIt also coordinates very nicely with Firefox's search bookmark feature, I just start the keywords with ! and it's just like I'm doing a normal web search on DDG