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Duck it https://duck.com https://duck.com

focusedone 4y ago
Duck has come a long way and is seriously useful now. The Bangs are fantastic time savers too. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
- folkrav 4y ago
  I do enjoy DDG, but I also still seem to have to use the !g bang to fall back to a Google search more often than I'd like to.
  - TheRealPomax 4y ago
    This. As much as I like the idea of DDG, any time I try to use it again I end up having to add !g more than half the time.
  - cassianoleal 4y ago
    I was like that a few years ago when I started using it. With time I realised that my query was just not returning the expected results in DDG so I'd just add the !g as a reflex. That rarely helped though but I kept doing it for a while until I lost the habit. Now I just try different queries in DDG and it may not be miles better than Google but it's definitely not worse. As always, YMMV.
- jlmorton 4y ago
  How are the bangs time savers? They drop you into the search interface of whatever site you're searching, which is fairly universally bad. If I try a search like "Django connection pooling !r," I'm dropped into Reddit's search interface, and the top result is "My pool has water while not being conected to my water system" from /r/RimWorld. This is not useful in the least.
  - marmetio 4y ago
    That's what the "site:" operator is for.
  - stnmtn 4y ago
    It's not useful for exploratory querying, but it's very useful when I know what I want to find on a specific website. For example, I want to see the latest videos uploaded on youtube by channel I like. I type in "!yt channelName". Or if I want to go to letterboxd to check out a movie's reviews. "!letterboxd movie" It's not much of a timersaver, it's literally just saving the step of going to youtube.com and then searching. But I love tiny efficiencies like that
  - minimoose 4y ago
    strange, i got https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Django%20connection%20pooling https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Django%20connection%20poolin... when using that search. i think ddg bangs work best when set as the default search and you just type into search bar or right click on highlighted text then search. using vivaldi but chrome should be similar.
  - focusedone 4y ago
    !a for an amazon search !e for ebay !m for Gmaps (without tracking, I believe) Hundreds(?) more. At this point I prepend !<area of interest> to whatever search I'm doing and it takes me exactly where I needed on the first try.
    - focusedone 4y ago
      And I'll add !hn for a quick HackerNews search :-)
tmaly 4y ago
There was a point in time where ddg was letting you contribute specific information to the results. It would have been cool if this had continues. An example of this would be say a way to return results specific to allrecipes or imdb etc.

Duck has come a long way and is seriously useful now. The Bangs are fantastic time savers too. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

folkrav 4y ago
I do enjoy DDG, but I also still seem to have to use the !g bang to fall back to a Google search more often than I'd like to.
- TheRealPomax 4y ago
  This. As much as I like the idea of DDG, any time I try to use it again I end up having to add !g more than half the time.
- cassianoleal 4y ago
  I was like that a few years ago when I started using it. With time I realised that my query was just not returning the expected results in DDG so I'd just add the !g as a reflex. That rarely helped though but I kept doing it for a while until I lost the habit. Now I just try different queries in DDG and it may not be miles better than Google but it's definitely not worse. As always, YMMV.
jlmorton 4y ago
How are the bangs time savers? They drop you into the search interface of whatever site you're searching, which is fairly universally bad. If I try a search like "Django connection pooling !r," I'm dropped into Reddit's search interface, and the top result is "My pool has water while not being conected to my water system" from /r/RimWorld. This is not useful in the least.
- marmetio 4y ago
  That's what the "site:" operator is for.
- stnmtn 4y ago
  It's not useful for exploratory querying, but it's very useful when I know what I want to find on a specific website. For example, I want to see the latest videos uploaded on youtube by channel I like. I type in "!yt channelName". Or if I want to go to letterboxd to check out a movie's reviews. "!letterboxd movie" It's not much of a timersaver, it's literally just saving the step of going to youtube.com and then searching. But I love tiny efficiencies like that
- minimoose 4y ago
  strange, i got https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Django%20connection%20pooling https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Django%20connection%20poolin... when using that search. i think ddg bangs work best when set as the default search and you just type into search bar or right click on highlighted text then search. using vivaldi but chrome should be similar.
- focusedone 4y ago
  !a for an amazon search !e for ebay !m for Gmaps (without tracking, I believe) Hundreds(?) more. At this point I prepend !<area of interest> to whatever search I'm doing and it takes me exactly where I needed on the first try.
  - focusedone 4y ago
    And I'll add !hn for a quick HackerNews search :-)

tmaly 4y ago

There was a point in time where ddg was letting you contribute specific information to the results. It would have been cool if this had continues. An example of this would be say a way to return results specific to allrecipes or imdb etc.