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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.c
by 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.
- jemfinch 14y agoChrome automatically fills the list for the sites I actually visit. By default the keyword is the domain name, but I can change that to whatever I want, rather than memorizing DDG's idiosyncratic abbreviations.
- w1ntermute 14y agoI suppose if you're that lazy, but I've been curating them over the years (they're now synced using Firefox Sync), and because they're custom, I've got much shorter keywords and greater customization. 'w <term>' searches Wikipedia for something, while 'hn' just loads http://hackerne.ws http://hackerne.ws I don't think there are more than one or two times a day that I actually type in a full URL.
- tg3 14y agoLikewise, on DDG, !w <term> searches wikipedia for something, while !hn <term> searches hnsearch for something. And I never had to configure anything. The best part about DDG is what someone mentioned earlier in the thread, the fact that so many sites are already in the list. If I've never searched Stack Overflow before, I can !so just based on a guess, and most of the time it is right.
- w1ntermute 14y agoThose are just two examples that I gave. Two examples of customization that aren't available that I have are 'wf' set to search Wikipedia for <search term>+ " (film)" and 'wtv' set to search Wikipedia for <search term>+ " (TV series)".