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I use it occasionally, what does !{language} search mean?

• tomclancy 12y ago
  Google it
• duggieawesome 12y ago
  Say you want to refer to the JavaScript docs, you can type: "!javascript function" and it will take you immediately to the documentation.
  • ausjke 12y ago
    Thanks. I was confused by language for various countries...
  • christiangenco 12y ago
    This works sporadically for me, and the autocomplete text is completely wrong: http://i.imgur.com/v3skzTX.png http://i.imgur.com/v3skzTX.png That search, "!ruby string", also redirects to... a google search?
    • valarauca1 12y ago
      Luckily DuckDuckGo is partially open, you can help contribute fixes :)
      • droope 12y ago
        Duck duck go does not share search data with any open search database e.g. YaCy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy It'd be pretty great if they did!
• polymatter 12y ago
  !java means limit search to Java documentation !scala means limit search to Scala documentation !golang means limit search to Go documentation !cpp means limit search to C++ documentation etc. see (https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html) for more.