> I don't get the appeal. Bangs are nice as a quick shortcut to specialized search engines like etymology online, google image search, wikipedia, or whatever.

> I don't get the appeal. Bangs are nice as a quick shortcut to specialized search engines like etymology online, google image search, wikipedia, or whatever. You can set up your browser to do this (some keyword changes the search), but it's convenient that DDG already has it built in, so the only setup needs to be switching your default search engine. I don't know why anyone would ever use DDG's bangs feature if it wasn't their default search engine. That's just a weird extra step.