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Can also use a DDG bang: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs?q=mdn https://duckduckgo.com/bangs?q=mdn

• Phemist 3y ago
  Not the same, as I would then _only_ search MDN. MDN does not know anything about the battle of waterloo: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=battle+of+waterloo https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=battle+of+water... And Wikipedia does not have any real API documentation of `requestAnimationFrame` https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?go=Go&search=requestAnimationFrame&ns0=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?go=Go&search=re... I want both of these to return sensible results for the bang-less search. This is the easiest for me and as a user of the search engine product, should also be what the search engine delivers me.
• chrismorgan 3y ago
  Using !mdn takes you to a mediocre-at-best MDN search page, not a specific page. My experience is that you’ll get better results from just adding the “mdn” keyword to the query and jumping to the first result—that is, instead of, say, `mix-blend-mode !mdn` (which takes you to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=mix-blend-mode https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=mix-blend-mode), `mix-blend-mode mdn !` (which takes you to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/mix-blend-mode https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/mix-blend-m...; the ! to skip the results page and go to the first match can be at the start or end of the entire query). This technique doesn’t guarantee you’ll end up on MDN, but for realistic queries you’re almost certain to.