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Among the benefits listed and hundreds of others are the !bang commands, which i really love. Want to do a search on stackoverflow right from your url bar?
by mtogo 15y ago
Among the benefits listed and hundreds of others are the !bang commands, which i really love.
Want to do a search on stackoverflow right from your url bar?
!so Hello world
Or maybe wikipedia?
!w Hello world
Or do a google search
!g Hello world
- thezilch 15y agoHow does this differ from using browser-builtin search-keywords, other than not having to rely/wait on a proxy? http://i.imgur.com/Tz7by.png http://i.imgur.com/Tz7by.png
- mtogo 15y agoIt's really similar, but you get a few hundred without having to configure anything in your browser, and it's the same no matter which browser[1] or computer you're using without having to sync anything. The downside, as you said, is that you have to wait for DDG's servers. [1] Which matters a lot to me, since i use 3 or 4 different browsers at a time across a few different computers and often don't have the ability to sync my browser prefs.
- Sephr 15y agoIf you visit any of those sites enough in Chrome, all you have to do is type a couple letters from the domain and then space or tab to search that site, given that they expose an OpenSearch Description. DuckDuckGo can't do this, as it static keywords instead of heuristically selecting the site you most likely want to search with the characters you have entered so far.
- mtogo 15y agoThis is one of my favorite features of Chrome, but as i said in my comment below, that only works in chrome, it only works on the computer you visit those sites from, and DDG has a handful of hundred sites whereas chrome has only a few that you visit. A good feature, but for my usage patterns it doesn't hold a candle to DDG !bang commands.
- alanh 15y agoOne of the best: The null !bang, if you will, is the equivalent of "I'm Feeling Lucky." Hacker News !