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Show HN: Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else

95 points by mcrittenden 14y ago

polyfractal 14y ago
Nifty idea. I'm having a hard time setting it as default search for Firefox though. I followed the instructions to "Add a keyword for this search"...but I'm not really sure how to make it default? I don't see it anywhere under the searchbar dropdown ("Manage Search Extensions") and don't see anything under the general options.
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  Hmm, looks like setting a default in Firefox is more difficult than I thought. I'm a Chrome user, but I could have sworn when you added a custom search engine in FF then it showed up in the list from "Manage Search Engines" but it appears that's not the case now (maybe never was?), and that the recommended way is by using OpenSearch XML[1]. I'll get that in place and update when it's done. Thanks for the bug report! 1: http://davidwalsh.name/open-search http://davidwalsh.name/open-search
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  Update: XML for FF is in place, and I updated the instructions to reflect that. Thanks again. http://www.duckduckgoog.com/browser http://www.duckduckgoog.com/browser
stevewillows 14y ago
This is great! I've tried to adopt DDG but in the end I'm finding myself prefacing everything with !g -- to the point where I will type it for other engines. Nice work!
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  Thanks! It's awesome to hear that this is useful for more people than just me.
chimeracoder 14y ago
Shouldn't this be really easy to create using a Chrome/Greasemonkey extension or something similar? I mean, all you have to do is automatically preface every query with "!g" (after passing through a regex to filter out the other !bang queries). That way no tertiary server would be needed, which would probably improve the response times (and cost less...)
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  You're right, and it's something I thought about, but per-browser extensions are obviously more time intensive than a basic 30 minute web app. Plus, I'm not sure if Chrome's extension API supports messing with search queries or not and some quick Googling didn't turn anything up (does anyone know?)
w1ntermute 14y ago
You can use keyword searches to get the !bang functionality directly in your browser for any search engine of your choice. There's no need to go through DuckDuckGo.
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  Right, but DDG provides a TON of them so you don't have to add them all manually. For example, I only need to search imdb like once ever 6 months or so, and I don't want to have to think about if I've already set up a browser search for it and go to the trouble of setting it up if not.
  - vegardx 14y ago
    Then use a browser that supports open search, type "imdb <tab>" in your address bar and whatever you want to search for, no need to use "bang-notation". I rarely find websites that does not support this kind of feature. In order for it to work you have to have visited the website one time first, but after that it's pretty straight forward.
    - mcrittenden 14y ago
      It appears that Chrome doesn't support open search and I'd prefer not to switch browsers just for this one small feature. Edit: I stand corrected.
      - mgurlitz 14y ago
        Of course it does: http://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search http://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search
- gphil 14y ago
  Except for that DuckDuckGo has hundreds of them already set up for you and the list is growing all the time: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html. I suppose you could curate the list of queries you use for yourself, but I find it easier to just use theirs.
brackin 14y ago
Great, exactly what I want, although it probably doesn't need to go through DDG it works perfectly fine. Google will let me load up the add as search engine dialogue but won't let me press okay to add it.
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  > Google will let me load up the add as search engine dialogue but won't let me press okay to add it. That's probably because you need to change the keyword to something besides "duckduckgoog.com" since Chrome already auto-stored one with that keyword.
avar 14y ago
I wrote this a while ago (July last year) as http://goosegoosego.com http://goosegoosego.com whose source code is available at https://gist.github.com/1113894 https://gist.github.com/1113894 You missed a spot in your handling of bang syntax, DuckDuckGo allows you to use either "\", "! " or "!ducky " to find the first result, you don't handle "\". At the time I also sent Gabriel Weinberg an couple of E-Mails about it saying I'd love to have it be made redundant by DuckDuckGo itself, but it's not a feature he's interested in pursuing: > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I implemented a wrapper around DuckDuckGo and Google and stuck it on > > > goosegoosego.com > > > > > > I got tired of always prefixing my normal queries with "!g", and not > > > having "! " work the way I wanted. > > > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:47, Gabriel Weinberg <yegg@duckduckgo.com> wrote: > > > Hah, nice :) > > > Gabriel, http://ye.gg/ > > Needless to say I'd be delighted if some option to duckduckgo.com > would make this redundant. > > One flaw in it is that if you e.g. search for "!mysql" it'll redirect > to duck-duck-go, which'll do a "site:mysql.com" search an DDG. > > I'd like it to do a "site:" search on Google instead, but that would > require me to compile a list of all the bang operators that result in > site: queries, which would make the code a bit more complex than it > currently is. > > It would be great if you could pass some GET parameter to DDG to make > it emulate GooseGooseGo's behavior, e.g.: > > http://duckduckgo.com/?dse=google&q=foobar > > dse = Default Search Engine. > > Then you could also make it prefer Bing, Yahoo etc. Duly noted, but not sure about doing that. Alternatively, you can use the 0-click api at http://api.duckduckgo.com/, which returns bang redirects and then you can just do a substitution if you see that. Gabriel, http://ye.gg/ So handling stuff like !mysql is certainly something you could expand upon if you want to make this more complete, I was just interested in making mine as minimal as possible, so it's a simple standalone script. Also, to anyone using DuckDuckGoog or my GooseGooseGo you should be aware that you're trusting some (other) random dudes on the internet with your searches, I don't log anything with GooseGooseGo (no access or error logs), but you only have my word for that. You can expose some sensitive information via your searches, and that's a reason why many people use DuckDuckGo in the first place even though their results aren't always up to par with Google's.
- draegtun 14y ago
excuse-me 14y ago
You mean other browsers don't allow you to create search shortcuts? eg "a blah" for amazon, "w blah" for wikipedia "s blah" for stackoverflow? - says a long time Opera users
- Spoom 14y ago
  Firefox and Chrome both allow this as I've been using them for years.
- Tyr42 14y ago
  I use that too in Opera. But it's set up for you and it's a huge list. Lazyness vs just-the-way-you-like-it
- manojlds 14y ago
  Opera, as far as I know, was the first to support this. But this site is about using duckduckgo's !bang which is a readymade list for you.
rduchnik 14y ago
I really like the search suggestions.
jemfinch 14y ago
Every time I see someone laud ddg's !bang searches, I ask myself, "What makes managing your browser's configuration so damn hard?" I go to Chrome's "settings", I click "Manage Search Engines", and I update the keyword. Why is this so hard for some people?
- yashchandra 14y ago
  It is not hard. I think the pointis that people do not like "manual touchpoints". In your examples, you described 3 of them. Most of us are lazy.
- corin_ 14y ago
  Personally I'm with you, but one argument against us is that DDG !bangs work on any machine you're ever on, without having to set them up - which for some people is a big advantage.
  - eblume 14y ago
    When you tie a chrome browser to your google account, configuration gets shared across machines. I'm not sure how handy that is if you're often on machines you don't control, but for my use case (where I work with 3-4 different machines every day, but just those same machines) the shared state solves that problem.
- jlarocco 14y ago
  You sound like one of the old Linux guys when somebody would say, "See? I can just click and change my resolution!" they'd go off about, "What's so hard about editing the X config file and finding the resolutions section and editing the right lines and then restarting X and ..." Yes, I could spend my time adding custom searches to all of the browsers I use. Or I can just use DuckDuckGo and get most of the searches I want automatically and not spend any time at all.
  - sqrt17 14y ago
    Not to put too fine a point on it: in the olden days, you could change resolutions without either editing your Xconfig file or clicking anywhere, just by pressing Ctrl-Alt-(KP+/KP-). Most distributions disable that nowadays, because it tends to confuse people if they have a viewport larger than their screen.
missing_cipher 14y ago
Small suggestion: You should give focus to the text area when the user lands on the page, so I can instantly search and not have to reach for the mouse or tab.
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  Ah, great idea. I'll put that at the top of the todo list. Thanks for the feedback!
- K2h 14y ago
  I agree. If there is more than one field it can get annoying to have the wrong one automatically selected, but with only one field - for sure, save me the mouse click.
- strangetimes 14y ago
  Yes. I was so excited to use this but my heart broke when I realized the search box wasn't auto-focused. That's a dealbreaker for me.
  - mcrittenden 14y ago
    Fear not, I just pushed a fix for this. Let me know if you run into any more deal breakers!
    - strangetimes 14y ago
      Sweet! I'll be running all my searches through DuckDuckGoog from now on. Thanks so much!
mrschwabe 14y ago
Awesome. I think this is the perfect solution for those users 'on the fence' about switching to DuckDuckGo. You can send them this link and say, look - its Google but now you get benefits of DDG too.
danneu 14y ago
This would be a weird place to stop for someone trying to minimize their time executing searches and clicking. Having to navigate to the browser to launch a search for MDN Arrays from Vim is suboptimal. Alfred (OSX) is the best solution I can come up with. "lucky <query>" pulls the browser up with its Google Feeling Lucky result. I've shortened it to just "l <query>". You can add custom searches with a syntax like "example.com/whatever/{query}".
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  The idea is to make it your browser's default search since lots of people (the majority?) search from the browser search bar or omnibar. Edit: you could also add this to Alfred. Alfred supports custom searches ( http://blog.alfredapp.com/2011/04/14/alfred-productivity-tips-using-custom-searches/ http://blog.alfredapp.com/2011/04/14/alfred-productivity-tip...) so you can just use http://www.duckduckgoog.com?q=SEARCH http://www.duckduckgoog.com?q=SEARCH as the custom URL and replace SEARCH with the token that Alfred expects
  - danneu 14y ago
    Right, I wasn't trying to rain on the submission. But you bring up a good point -- DuckDuckGoog is still useful with Alfred since it saves you from having to manually create a bunch of custom searches.
Rudism 14y ago
I've switched full time to DDG for a couple months now, and have rarely ever used !g to Google results because I was unsatisfied with the DDG results. I'm curious what the criticisms of DDG's search results are. It's clear to me that many people prefer Google over DDG, but it's unclear why. What is the standard that the search results are being held up to?
- seltzered_ 14y ago
  I tend to still use !g for when i'm doing code / error searches, google just seems to give better results. There was some article a couple weeks ago about how often search engines "crawl" info, and google was still miles ahead of bing / ddg.
- chaud 14y ago
  When I search for something on DDG, I generally find one or two good results somewhere in the first set and all the rest are spammy/junk sites that repost content from other larger sites or just poor quality results. DDG also doesn't understand context or acronyms, like MoP. I work for a gaming site, so my example is gaming related. Google knows when I search for "mop legendary" I am looking for information relating to a legendary item in the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft. DDG doesn't make that connection of MoP -> Mists of Pandaria. I do get some amusing results like this though: http://www.buy.com/th/swiss-legend-diamond-mop.html http://www.buy.com/th/swiss-legend-diamond-mop.html
  - greglindahl 14y ago
    Tough one. blekko has a WoW slashtag, but it doesn't auto-boost for that query. You can invoke it by hand, though, how do you like this result? https://blekko.com/ws/mop+legendary+%2B/wow https://blekko.com/ws/mop+legendary+%2B/wow
    - chaud 14y ago
      Less of the low quality sites, but I would expect one of these URLs to be on the first page: 1) http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2806-Mists-of-Pandaria-Beta-Build-15762 http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2806-Mists-of-Pandaria-B... 2) http://www.wowhead.com/news=204099/mists-of-pandarias-first-legendary-available-for-every-class http://www.wowhead.com/news=204099/mists-of-pandarias-first-... 3) http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/mists-of-pandaria-new-wrathion-voice-files-datamined/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/mists-of-pandaria-new-wrat... It does better (at least as far as the first result or two go) when you don't have to guess the acronym though: 1) https://blekko.com/ws/tier+14+sets+%2B%2Fwow https://blekko.com/ws/tier+14+sets+%2B%2Fwow 2) https://blekko.com/ws/challenge+mode+sets+%2B%2Fwow https://blekko.com/ws/challenge+mode+sets+%2B%2Fwow For more standard searches it is okay, but DDG/Bing and Google are better. In these results I especially like potstuck and fabien potencier posts. 1) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+dependency+injection+container+example+ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+dependency+injection+container... 2) https://blekko.com/ws/php+dependency+injection+container+example https://blekko.com/ws/php+dependency+injection+container+exa... 3) https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=php+dependency+injection+container+example&fp=e58c1f154d1f56aa https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-a... It is nice to see alternatives developing though, should the day ever come that I want to leave Google behind!
jbverschoor 14y ago
Why not type: ama <tab> = search amazon in chrome
sktrdie 14y ago
God, do we really need a whole website for this? All it does is redirect to another site.
roryokane 14y ago
This looks interesting, but I find myself missing Google’s search suggestions. Does anyone know a way to enable them for this search engine? (I’m on Firefox.) I see somebody hosts a “Duck Duck Go + Google Suggest” plugin and proxy server at http://nfriedly.com:81/ http://nfriedly.com:81/. If there isn’t already a search plugin like I’m looking for, I think the easiest way to make it would be to just change the search URL (and name and icon) for that plugin. Does anyone know how to do that?
olalonde 14y ago
I don't get what is so great about DuckDuckGo's bang syntax. Whenever I want to search Wikipedia, I simply go in Chrome's address bar and type "w<tab>". Google is "g<tab>". Hacker News is "h<tab>". DuckDuckGo is "d<tab>". This all works out of the box with no manual configuration given that you have used those search engines in the past. Is there something I am missing?
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95 points by mcrittenden 14y ago

Nifty idea. I'm having a hard time setting it as default search for Firefox though. I followed the instructions to "Add a keyword for this search"...but I'm not really sure how to make it default? I don't see it anywhere under the searchbar dropdown ("Manage Search Extensions") and don't see anything under the general options.

mcrittenden 14y ago
Hmm, looks like setting a default in Firefox is more difficult than I thought. I'm a Chrome user, but I could have sworn when you added a custom search engine in FF then it showed up in the list from "Manage Search Engines" but it appears that's not the case now (maybe never was?), and that the recommended way is by using OpenSearch XML[1]. I'll get that in place and update when it's done. Thanks for the bug report! 1: http://davidwalsh.name/open-search http://davidwalsh.name/open-search
mcrittenden 14y ago
Update: XML for FF is in place, and I updated the instructions to reflect that. Thanks again. http://www.duckduckgoog.com/browser http://www.duckduckgoog.com/browser

stevewillows 14y ago

This is great! I've tried to adopt DDG but in the end I'm finding myself prefacing everything with !g -- to the point where I will type it for other engines. Nice work!

mcrittenden 14y ago
Thanks! It's awesome to hear that this is useful for more people than just me.

chimeracoder 14y ago

Shouldn't this be really easy to create using a Chrome/Greasemonkey extension or something similar? I mean, all you have to do is automatically preface every query with "!g" (after passing through a regex to filter out the other !bang queries). That way no tertiary server would be needed, which would probably improve the response times (and cost less...)

mcrittenden 14y ago
You're right, and it's something I thought about, but per-browser extensions are obviously more time intensive than a basic 30 minute web app. Plus, I'm not sure if Chrome's extension API supports messing with search queries or not and some quick Googling didn't turn anything up (does anyone know?)

w1ntermute 14y ago

You can use keyword searches to get the !bang functionality directly in your browser for any search engine of your choice. There's no need to go through DuckDuckGo.

mcrittenden 14y ago
Right, but DDG provides a TON of them so you don't have to add them all manually. For example, I only need to search imdb like once ever 6 months or so, and I don't want to have to think about if I've already set up a browser search for it and go to the trouble of setting it up if not.
- vegardx 14y ago
  Then use a browser that supports open search, type "imdb <tab>" in your address bar and whatever you want to search for, no need to use "bang-notation". I rarely find websites that does not support this kind of feature. In order for it to work you have to have visited the website one time first, but after that it's pretty straight forward.
  - mcrittenden 14y ago
    It appears that Chrome doesn't support open search and I'd prefer not to switch browsers just for this one small feature. Edit: I stand corrected.
    - mgurlitz 14y ago
      Of course it does: http://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search http://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search
gphil 14y ago
Except for that DuckDuckGo has hundreds of them already set up for you and the list is growing all the time: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html. I suppose you could curate the list of queries you use for yourself, but I find it easier to just use theirs.

brackin 14y ago

Great, exactly what I want, although it probably doesn't need to go through DDG it works perfectly fine. Google will let me load up the add as search engine dialogue but won't let me press okay to add it.

mcrittenden 14y ago
> Google will let me load up the add as search engine dialogue but won't let me press okay to add it. That's probably because you need to change the keyword to something besides "duckduckgoog.com" since Chrome already auto-stored one with that keyword.

avar 14y ago

I wrote this a while ago (July last year) as http://goosegoosego.com http://goosegoosego.com whose source code is available at https://gist.github.com/1113894 https://gist.github.com/1113894 You missed a spot in your handling of bang syntax, DuckDuckGo allows you to use either "\", "! " or "!ducky " to find the first result, you don't handle "\". At the time I also sent Gabriel Weinberg an couple of E-Mails about it saying I'd love to have it be made redundant by DuckDuckGo itself, but it's not a feature he's interested in pursuing: > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I implemented a wrapper around DuckDuckGo and Google and stuck it on > > > goosegoosego.com > > > > > > I got tired of always prefixing my normal queries with "!g", and not > > > having "! " work the way I wanted. > > > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:47, Gabriel Weinberg <yegg@duckduckgo.com> wrote: > > > Hah, nice :) > > > Gabriel, http://ye.gg/ > > Needless to say I'd be delighted if some option to duckduckgo.com > would make this redundant. > > One flaw in it is that if you e.g. search for "!mysql" it'll redirect > to duck-duck-go, which'll do a "site:mysql.com" search an DDG. > > I'd like it to do a "site:" search on Google instead, but that would > require me to compile a list of all the bang operators that result in > site: queries, which would make the code a bit more complex than it > currently is. > > It would be great if you could pass some GET parameter to DDG to make > it emulate GooseGooseGo's behavior, e.g.: > > http://duckduckgo.com/?dse=google&q=foobar > > dse = Default Search Engine. > > Then you could also make it prefer Bing, Yahoo etc. Duly noted, but not sure about doing that. Alternatively, you can use the 0-click api at http://api.duckduckgo.com/, which returns bang redirects and then you can just do a substitution if you see that. Gabriel, http://ye.gg/ So handling stuff like !mysql is certainly something you could expand upon if you want to make this more complete, I was just interested in making mine as minimal as possible, so it's a simple standalone script. Also, to anyone using DuckDuckGoog or my GooseGooseGo you should be aware that you're trusting some (other) random dudes on the internet with your searches, I don't log anything with GooseGooseGo (no access or error logs), but you only have my word for that. You can expose some sensitive information via your searches, and that's a reason why many people use DuckDuckGo in the first place even though their results aren't always up to par with Google's.

draegtun 14y ago

excuse-me 14y ago

You mean other browsers don't allow you to create search shortcuts? eg "a blah" for amazon, "w blah" for wikipedia "s blah" for stackoverflow? - says a long time Opera users

Spoom 14y ago
Firefox and Chrome both allow this as I've been using them for years.
Tyr42 14y ago
I use that too in Opera. But it's set up for you and it's a huge list. Lazyness vs just-the-way-you-like-it
manojlds 14y ago
Opera, as far as I know, was the first to support this. But this site is about using duckduckgo's !bang which is a readymade list for you.

rduchnik 14y ago

I really like the search suggestions.

jemfinch 14y ago

Every time I see someone laud ddg's !bang searches, I ask myself, "What makes managing your browser's configuration so damn hard?" I go to Chrome's "settings", I click "Manage Search Engines", and I update the keyword. Why is this so hard for some people?

yashchandra 14y ago
It is not hard. I think the pointis that people do not like "manual touchpoints". In your examples, you described 3 of them. Most of us are lazy.
corin_ 14y ago
Personally I'm with you, but one argument against us is that DDG !bangs work on any machine you're ever on, without having to set them up - which for some people is a big advantage.
- eblume 14y ago
  When you tie a chrome browser to your google account, configuration gets shared across machines. I'm not sure how handy that is if you're often on machines you don't control, but for my use case (where I work with 3-4 different machines every day, but just those same machines) the shared state solves that problem.
jlarocco 14y ago
You sound like one of the old Linux guys when somebody would say, "See? I can just click and change my resolution!" they'd go off about, "What's so hard about editing the X config file and finding the resolutions section and editing the right lines and then restarting X and ..." Yes, I could spend my time adding custom searches to all of the browsers I use. Or I can just use DuckDuckGo and get most of the searches I want automatically and not spend any time at all.
- sqrt17 14y ago
  Not to put too fine a point on it: in the olden days, you could change resolutions without either editing your Xconfig file or clicking anywhere, just by pressing Ctrl-Alt-(KP+/KP-). Most distributions disable that nowadays, because it tends to confuse people if they have a viewport larger than their screen.

missing_cipher 14y ago

Small suggestion: You should give focus to the text area when the user lands on the page, so I can instantly search and not have to reach for the mouse or tab.

mcrittenden 14y ago
Ah, great idea. I'll put that at the top of the todo list. Thanks for the feedback!
K2h 14y ago
I agree. If there is more than one field it can get annoying to have the wrong one automatically selected, but with only one field - for sure, save me the mouse click.
strangetimes 14y ago
Yes. I was so excited to use this but my heart broke when I realized the search box wasn't auto-focused. That's a dealbreaker for me.
- mcrittenden 14y ago
  Fear not, I just pushed a fix for this. Let me know if you run into any more deal breakers!
  - strangetimes 14y ago
    Sweet! I'll be running all my searches through DuckDuckGoog from now on. Thanks so much!

mrschwabe 14y ago

Awesome. I think this is the perfect solution for those users 'on the fence' about switching to DuckDuckGo. You can send them this link and say, look - its Google but now you get benefits of DDG too.

danneu 14y ago

This would be a weird place to stop for someone trying to minimize their time executing searches and clicking. Having to navigate to the browser to launch a search for MDN Arrays from Vim is suboptimal. Alfred (OSX) is the best solution I can come up with. "lucky <query>" pulls the browser up with its Google Feeling Lucky result. I've shortened it to just "l <query>". You can add custom searches with a syntax like "example.com/whatever/{query}".

mcrittenden 14y ago
The idea is to make it your browser's default search since lots of people (the majority?) search from the browser search bar or omnibar. Edit: you could also add this to Alfred. Alfred supports custom searches ( http://blog.alfredapp.com/2011/04/14/alfred-productivity-tips-using-custom-searches/ http://blog.alfredapp.com/2011/04/14/alfred-productivity-tip...) so you can just use http://www.duckduckgoog.com?q=SEARCH http://www.duckduckgoog.com?q=SEARCH as the custom URL and replace SEARCH with the token that Alfred expects
- danneu 14y ago
  Right, I wasn't trying to rain on the submission. But you bring up a good point -- DuckDuckGoog is still useful with Alfred since it saves you from having to manually create a bunch of custom searches.

Rudism 14y ago

I've switched full time to DDG for a couple months now, and have rarely ever used !g to Google results because I was unsatisfied with the DDG results. I'm curious what the criticisms of DDG's search results are. It's clear to me that many people prefer Google over DDG, but it's unclear why. What is the standard that the search results are being held up to?

seltzered_ 14y ago
I tend to still use !g for when i'm doing code / error searches, google just seems to give better results. There was some article a couple weeks ago about how often search engines "crawl" info, and google was still miles ahead of bing / ddg.
chaud 14y ago
When I search for something on DDG, I generally find one or two good results somewhere in the first set and all the rest are spammy/junk sites that repost content from other larger sites or just poor quality results. DDG also doesn't understand context or acronyms, like MoP. I work for a gaming site, so my example is gaming related. Google knows when I search for "mop legendary" I am looking for information relating to a legendary item in the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft. DDG doesn't make that connection of MoP -> Mists of Pandaria. I do get some amusing results like this though: http://www.buy.com/th/swiss-legend-diamond-mop.html http://www.buy.com/th/swiss-legend-diamond-mop.html
- greglindahl 14y ago
  Tough one. blekko has a WoW slashtag, but it doesn't auto-boost for that query. You can invoke it by hand, though, how do you like this result? https://blekko.com/ws/mop+legendary+%2B/wow https://blekko.com/ws/mop+legendary+%2B/wow
  - chaud 14y ago
    Less of the low quality sites, but I would expect one of these URLs to be on the first page: 1) http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2806-Mists-of-Pandaria-Beta-Build-15762 http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2806-Mists-of-Pandaria-B... 2) http://www.wowhead.com/news=204099/mists-of-pandarias-first-legendary-available-for-every-class http://www.wowhead.com/news=204099/mists-of-pandarias-first-... 3) http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/mists-of-pandaria-new-wrathion-voice-files-datamined/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/mists-of-pandaria-new-wrat... It does better (at least as far as the first result or two go) when you don't have to guess the acronym though: 1) https://blekko.com/ws/tier+14+sets+%2B%2Fwow https://blekko.com/ws/tier+14+sets+%2B%2Fwow 2) https://blekko.com/ws/challenge+mode+sets+%2B%2Fwow https://blekko.com/ws/challenge+mode+sets+%2B%2Fwow For more standard searches it is okay, but DDG/Bing and Google are better. In these results I especially like potstuck and fabien potencier posts. 1) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+dependency+injection+container+example+ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+dependency+injection+container... 2) https://blekko.com/ws/php+dependency+injection+container+example https://blekko.com/ws/php+dependency+injection+container+exa... 3) https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=php+dependency+injection+container+example&fp=e58c1f154d1f56aa https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-a... It is nice to see alternatives developing though, should the day ever come that I want to leave Google behind!

jbverschoor 14y ago

Why not type: ama <tab> = search amazon in chrome

sktrdie 14y ago

God, do we really need a whole website for this? All it does is redirect to another site.

roryokane 14y ago

This looks interesting, but I find myself missing Google’s search suggestions. Does anyone know a way to enable them for this search engine? (I’m on Firefox.) I see somebody hosts a “Duck Duck Go + Google Suggest” plugin and proxy server at http://nfriedly.com:81/ http://nfriedly.com:81/. If there isn’t already a search plugin like I’m looking for, I think the easiest way to make it would be to just change the search URL (and name and icon) for that plugin. Does anyone know how to do that?

olalonde 14y ago

I don't get what is so great about DuckDuckGo's bang syntax. Whenever I want to search Wikipedia, I simply go in Chrome's address bar and type "w<tab>". Google is "g<tab>". Hacker News is "h<tab>". DuckDuckGo is "d<tab>". This all works out of the box with no manual configuration given that you have used those search engines in the past. Is there something I am missing?

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