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> I would gladly trade that for the additional mental steps of deciding which service to search and what the bang shortcut is for that service. There are hardl
by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> I would gladly trade that for the additional mental steps of deciding which service to search and what the bang shortcut is for that service.
There are hardly any mental steps plural, if any mental step at all. Give it a try and see if there's a bang that doesn't make sense.
Examples:
!g - Google
!b - Bing
!gm - Google Maps (also !gmaps)
!bm - Bings Maps (also !bmaps or !bingmaps)
!d - Dictionary (also !dict and !dictionary)
!t - thesaurus (also !thesarus)
!gi - Google Images (also !gim)
!gh - GitHub (also !github)
!yt - YouTube (also !youtube)
!cpp - C++ reference from cplusplus.com
!hn - Hacker News Search
!aur - Arch Linux User Repo
!trulia - Trulia
!domain - domain name search
...etc
- baddox 13y agoI essentially used bangs extensively many years ago (not through DDG; I set up custom keyword searches in Firefox), and I agree that it worked quite well. I now use raw Google searches, and I think Google is now good enough that it is not worth using bangs anymore (Google privacy issues notwithstanding).
- isaacaggrey 13y agoFair enough. :) As I said in my original post, if DDG's privacy is not a selling point for someone, then I agree with you; bangs are hardly a reason to stick with DDG.