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I typed in "w sushi" into chrome and I got https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&ix=ucb&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=w+sushi https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&ix=uc
by noahc 14y ago
I typed in "w sushi" into chrome and I got https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&ix=ucb&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=w+sushi https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&ix=ucb&sourceid=c... which google set to my default. I expected to get "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi
Do I have to setup all these different keywords to work? If so that's the difference. It's essentially a pre-configured command line with literally hundreds (thousands?) of predefined syntax for searches.
- dsrguru 14y agoYes, I set those keyword searches myself. So the difference seems to be that with DDG, you just have to learn which shortcuts exist rather than customizing them yourself. That doesn't really sound like it saves much time, but it sounds like the real advantage of DDG is that the act of reading through the DDG list of keywords would probably give me ideas of useful time-saving shortcuts that I'd never think of making on my own.