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After seeing similar threads on HN, I’ve also started a similar journey. I managed to migrate to Firefox with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. But I’ve

After seeing similar threads on HN, I’ve also started a similar journey. I managed to migrate to Firefox with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. But I’ve also added a shortcut for Google search: if I feel like I am missing something I open a new tab and type “go [keywords]”.

jbmsf 6y ago
You know you can prefix your ddg search with !g to use Google? Useful for technical searches, where ddg is sadly, not good enough.
- niamsidri 6y ago
  Didn’t know that. Thank you!
- Timpy 6y ago
  You can actually use !g anywhere in the search strings. It's useful when you finish typing your query, you can change your search engine at the last second.
primozk 6y ago
DDG already supports Google (and some others) by typing !g [keywords]
- bad_user 6y ago
  This never made sense to me, if you're concerned about privacy, why send your search queries to an intermediary when the browser is perfectly capable of handling that for you.