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I set my default search to DDG and I find myself using G! in my queries a lot more than I want to.

by zucked 6y ago

RedShift1 6y ago
What does that do?
- krimpenrik 6y ago
  A google search
  - tejtm 6y ago
    with less bubble/tracking I think. but I only !g a few times a year so not an expert on it
    - chinathrow 6y ago
      Why would there be less tracking? It's a regular google search, accessed directly from within your browser window.
- gkoberger 6y ago
  Redirects you to a Google search (try it here: https://duck.com?q=!g%20test https://duck.com?q=!g%20test)
- AnonHP 6y ago
  It’s called a “bang command”, [1] and DDG redirects that search to another site. You can set DDG as your default search engine but rely on these commands to search on other sites. Just put the bang command anywhere in your search term or phrase. In this case, “!g” means search on google.com. So you get redirected to Google for that search. You can search on Startpage with !s, Wikipedia with !w, IMDB with !imdb, Amazon with !a, Google Images with !gi and so on. There are thousands of bang commands. [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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krimpenrik 6y ago
Have the same, really want to like ddg for over a year but I almost hit !g every time
- dnautics 6y ago
  In practice ddg is great for everything except searching for programming related things. I guess Google knows I'm a programmer and filters my results accordingly. Sadly about 60% of my searches are programming-related.
  - Semaphor 6y ago
    DDG is great for me for almost everything (including programming) besides very long tail results, specifically rare error messages.
  - larusso 6y ago
    I use ddg exclusively on all my devices for over three years now and can‘t complain. I had no reason to switch to g! for any topic I needed results. So I wonder if I would solve issues in programming faster or not using google. I never had the feeling my programming related searches are not spot on.
  - trickstra 6y ago
    Programmer here. I've been using DDG for about 2 years and only find myself desperately going to google about once per month. And that's usually for image search. Google's results now seem to me too "commercial" as if all the spots were just sold, offering me something they want to sell, not what I want to search.
reportgunner 6y ago
I'm genuinely curious about the examples where you didn't find the result on ddg and found via !g I've noticed that if I don't find something on ddg and go to google I usually don't find what I'm looking for there either.

I set my default search to DDG and I find myself using G! in my queries a lot more than I want to.

by zucked 6y ago

I set my default search to DDG and I find myself using G! in my queries a lot more than I want to.

RedShift1 6y ago

What does that do?

krimpenrik 6y ago
A google search
- tejtm 6y ago
  with less bubble/tracking I think. but I only !g a few times a year so not an expert on it
  - chinathrow 6y ago
    Why would there be less tracking? It's a regular google search, accessed directly from within your browser window.
gkoberger 6y ago
Redirects you to a Google search (try it here: https://duck.com?q=!g%20test https://duck.com?q=!g%20test)
AnonHP 6y ago
It’s called a “bang command”, [1] and DDG redirects that search to another site. You can set DDG as your default search engine but rely on these commands to search on other sites. Just put the bang command anywhere in your search term or phrase. In this case, “!g” means search on google.com. So you get redirected to Google for that search. You can search on Startpage with !s, Wikipedia with !w, IMDB with !imdb, Amazon with !a, Google Images with !gi and so on. There are thousands of bang commands. [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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krimpenrik 6y ago

Have the same, really want to like ddg for over a year but I almost hit !g every time

dnautics 6y ago
In practice ddg is great for everything except searching for programming related things. I guess Google knows I'm a programmer and filters my results accordingly. Sadly about 60% of my searches are programming-related.
- Semaphor 6y ago
  DDG is great for me for almost everything (including programming) besides very long tail results, specifically rare error messages.
- larusso 6y ago
  I use ddg exclusively on all my devices for over three years now and can‘t complain. I had no reason to switch to g! for any topic I needed results. So I wonder if I would solve issues in programming faster or not using google. I never had the feeling my programming related searches are not spot on.
- trickstra 6y ago
  Programmer here. I've been using DDG for about 2 years and only find myself desperately going to google about once per month. And that's usually for image search. Google's results now seem to me too "commercial" as if all the spots were just sold, offering me something they want to sell, not what I want to search.

reportgunner 6y ago

I'm genuinely curious about the examples where you didn't find the result on ddg and found via !g I've noticed that if I don't find something on ddg and go to google I usually don't find what I'm looking for there either.