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>Am I the only one that fails to see a problem with Google search? I agree with you about google's spell check, relevance, and speed. DDG's !bang search is a
by act 16y ago
>Am I the only one that fails to see a problem with Google search?
I agree with you about google's spell check, relevance, and speed.
DDG's !bang search is a killer feature for me, though. I can type "!wikipedia topic" in the omnibar and it gets me to the exact page I'm looking for, without stopping at a middleman. The same feature makes google maps, images, videos, and youtube easier to use to with ddg as my default search than with google as my default search. I have been surprised by the amount of search traffic that I redirect to something other than a general web search now that it is convenient for me to do so.
- kgtm 16y agoChrome: Ctr+T | "wi" | <TAB> | Topic Ctr+T | "the" | <TAB> | Torrent Etc..
- act 16y agoThank you for that, I hadn't found that feature. It specifically isn't working for me with wikipedia or google maps, although it works beautifully for a couple other test cases.
- sathyabhat 16y agoSearch once, and it'll be added for future use. Search more frequently and number of characters required to type preceding <tab> will reduce
- aw3c2 16y agoMost browser support custom keywords for "search engines". For example in Opera you can rightclick any form field(?) and "create search". Enter a keyword like w for Wikipedia and from now on you can simply enter "w whatever" in the address bar. That way you truly have no middleman. In Firefox this feature is called "keymarks" I think. Add a bookmark from a search result page, then edit it, replace the searched string with %s and add the keymark (letter or short string, same as with Opera).