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I have been using DDG for the better part of the last year and it has improved considerably, especially with technical/dev stuff. Searching for error messages w
by sveme 13y ago
I have been using DDG for the better part of the last year and it has improved considerably, especially with technical/dev stuff. Searching for error messages works much better now than even half a year ago which is probably a smart move by DDG to focus on technical people.
The biggest problem I have is when I try to search for non-American resources or when using a language other than English. German language search results are often simply horrible.
Despite that, I'm never reverting to google as my main engine, as the bangs simply provide too many benefits: I want wikipedia content? w! Search Google Scholar for a paper? scholar! A product on amazon? a! One less click than when using Google.
Though bangs have the same issues with other languages or non-American resources. w! brings you to the English wikipedia, a! to the American Amazon. Internationalization should be their next step.
Update: I'm actually mistaken about internationalization of bangs (see https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html for the full list) - !wde searches on the German wikipedia, !wpl on polish etc. Great stuff. Even better, I could suggest a new bang here: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang, so I'm sorry for spreading any misinformation.
- rhizome31 13y agoThanks, I didn't know about the localized bangs! When DDG falls short on an error message I usually resort to !ix (ixquick) and !sp (StartPage).