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I think they copied DuckDuckGo's bangs. It's nowhere in the documentation, and the UI never indicates it, but bang searches (like `!stackoverflow parse html wi
by open-paren 5y ago
I think they copied DuckDuckGo's bangs.
It's nowhere in the documentation, and the UI never indicates it, but bang searches (like `!stackoverflow parse html with regex`) work in Brave Search exactly as they do in DuckDuckGo.
Preliminary testing of mine suggests that they just copied DuckDuckGo's list directly–I tried a few obscure ones from DDG, like `!ldss` or `!uib`, and they work in Brave Search.
@w0ts0n any details you are willing to share?
- jonathansampson 5y agoWe support many shebangs, with more to come in the future. For now, this is what is offered: !i - Search Images !n - Search News !a - Amazon !b - Bing !d - DuckDuckGo !e - eBay !g - Google !p - Pinterest !r - Reddit !s - StartPage !w - Wikipedia !li - LinkedIn !gh - GitHub !gm - Google Maps !so - Stack Overflow !tw - Twitter !yt - YouTube !wa - Wolfram Alpha !mj - Mojeek !osm - Open Street Map !mdn - Mozilla Developer Network
- open-paren 5y agoIf that's all that's offered, why does DDG's obscure shebangs work on Brave Search? https://search.brave.com/search?q=!hn+brave+search https://search.brave.com/search?q=!hn+brave+search
- jonathansampson 5y agoOh, apologies for the confusion. We support DDG's shebangs too; the above list is what we add to the list.
- open-paren 5y agoNo worries. Congrats on the launch.
- xpe 5y ago!g is called a bang. A shebang is something else ('#!').
- minitech 5y agoOut of that list, the only two bangs that DuckDuckGo doesn’t support are: - !d (it’s already DuckDuckGo, so !d is “dictionary”) - !mj (it’s !mojeek)
- CallMeMarc 5y agoAre the !a and !e bangs for Amazon and eBay defaulting to .com and if yes, is there a way to get them to default to e.g. amazon.de?
- xpe 5y ago!g is called a bang. A shebang is '#!'.