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Seriously, I'm surprised at how many devs haven't seen DuckDuckGo's bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs I use them all the time fo
by curtis3389 3y ago
Seriously, I'm surprised at how many devs haven't seen DuckDuckGo's bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
I use them all the time for work. !mdn for MDN, !dnab for .NET, !npm for NPM, !py3 for Python3 docs, !debman for Debian Manpages, !w for Wikipedia, !a for Amazon, !g for Google when you really need it.
I'm not affiliated with DDG; I just really, really love it.
- aaomidi 3y agoThis exists in Google too with just writing “MDN” at the end of your query.
- PetitPrince 3y agoBangs are no not "asking the search engine to return all page of a particular website" but rather "directly use the search engine of that particular website". It's a bit using the a particular search engine from your browser.
- aaomidi 3y agoRight but at the end it has mostly the same effect.
- dylan604 3y agoThis really feels like someone living in an echo chamber. Asking my extended family if they've ever used DDG or even heard of it would yield very low numbers and I have a large extended family. Most users don't even know you can use things within Google search like "site:" to attempt to control the results. Just look at that list of bangs you provided. It's a techie/dev's wet dream of sources. Not one of them is something somebody's mom is going to give one iota of a concern about.