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DDG has thousands of premade !bang shortcuts though. You don't have to spend any time creating unique search aliases for every one of your browsers. You (and

DDG has thousands of premade !bang shortcuts though. You don't have to spend any time creating unique search aliases for every one of your browsers. You (and anyone else) can directly search wikipedia with a quick !w from at DDG from any browser anywhere.

anthony_romeo 11y ago
It also helps that even if you don't know the shorthand that, say, !py3 does a search of the python3 documentation, almost always you can type out the full name to do the search, e.g. !python3.
tgb 11y ago
Chrome automatically creates these for me, though. Start typing imdb.com, once it starts autocompleting, hit tab, then type whatever I want to search. I only have to go search there once. I've been using firefox and DDG lately and I really miss this. Down side to that feature is when you search a random blog once and then two years later it's suggesting you search there again.
- hansrodtang 11y ago
  Firefox supports something similar, if you for example visit IMDb you can add their search via the Firefox search box and then add a keyword of your choice to use the search in the address bar. Both Firefox and Chrome use OpenSearch (http://www.opensearch.org/Home http://www.opensearch.org/Home) to achieve this.
- sesutton 11y ago
  If you delete the suggestion by hitting Shift-Delete while it's highlighted.
- dublinben 11y ago
  That sounds a lot like you're still creating each one yourself. Just because Chrome is suggesting that you might want to create a search shortcut, doesn't mean you're still making individual shortcuts by hand. I can directly search Audible.com (a site I've never used before) with an intuitive !audible. Then I never have to think about this shortcut ever again, because it isn't saved in my browser somewhere.
oalders 11y ago
There's some good stuff in there. If you're searching for Perl documentation !mcpan will lead you directly to a MetaCPAN.org search page. "!mcpan Plack" is a good example.
Nadya 11y ago
Thousands of premade !bangs that I would have to memorize, rather than create myself (which makes memorization much easier) Although pointless, it's fun to use my keyword "ddg" to use their bang syntax to search another site. Even if I already have that site as its own keyword. ie: There is no difference between me searching "y this searches youtube" and "ddg !y this also searches youtube" or having to actually visit ddg to search Youtube. There's no reason for me to not just use a feature already built into my browser.
- shmerl 11y ago
  You can create them yourself in Firefox if you want. See http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html
  - Nadya 11y ago
    Which is exactly what I explained I use (and why I would use them), but thank you. :) >There's no reason for me to not just use a feature already built into my browser.
- morenoh149 11y ago
  o.o it's intuitive imo. !g - google, !yf - yahoo finance, !cb - crunchbase, !news - google news, !yt - youtube. Sometimes I just try an abbreviation that makes sense and lo I'm correct. Plus I make ddg my default browser so I do just go to the address bar put `!yt cats` and get youtube cat videos.
  - Nadya 11y ago
    Sometimes it's about wanting a trivially shorter keyword. !h searches Hoogle; I would prefer it to search Hacker News. To search Hacker News I have to use !hnsearch or !hn !hn isn't much larger than !h but is still something I would prefer to set myself. !m goes to Google Maps but I would prefer to use another map service. I could use !mapquest but would rather it just be !m !sd goes to Slickdeals instead of Science Daily (which is !sciencedaily , talk about lengthy) E: I just compared my keywords and then searched the DDG Bang list for where I would be taken if I had used DDG instead of ones I set myself. E: >Plus I make ddg my default browser so I do just go to the address bar put `!yt cats` and get youtube cat videos. I just type "y cats" and get youtube cat videos. ;)

anthony_romeo 11y ago

It also helps that even if you don't know the shorthand that, say, !py3 does a search of the python3 documentation, almost always you can type out the full name to do the search, e.g. !python3.

tgb 11y ago

Chrome automatically creates these for me, though. Start typing imdb.com, once it starts autocompleting, hit tab, then type whatever I want to search. I only have to go search there once. I've been using firefox and DDG lately and I really miss this. Down side to that feature is when you search a random blog once and then two years later it's suggesting you search there again.

hansrodtang 11y ago
Firefox supports something similar, if you for example visit IMDb you can add their search via the Firefox search box and then add a keyword of your choice to use the search in the address bar. Both Firefox and Chrome use OpenSearch (http://www.opensearch.org/Home http://www.opensearch.org/Home) to achieve this.
sesutton 11y ago
If you delete the suggestion by hitting Shift-Delete while it's highlighted.
dublinben 11y ago
That sounds a lot like you're still creating each one yourself. Just because Chrome is suggesting that you might want to create a search shortcut, doesn't mean you're still making individual shortcuts by hand. I can directly search Audible.com (a site I've never used before) with an intuitive !audible. Then I never have to think about this shortcut ever again, because it isn't saved in my browser somewhere.

oalders 11y ago

There's some good stuff in there. If you're searching for Perl documentation !mcpan will lead you directly to a MetaCPAN.org search page. "!mcpan Plack" is a good example.

Nadya 11y ago

Thousands of premade !bangs that I would have to memorize, rather than create myself (which makes memorization much easier) Although pointless, it's fun to use my keyword "ddg" to use their bang syntax to search another site. Even if I already have that site as its own keyword. ie: There is no difference between me searching "y this searches youtube" and "ddg !y this also searches youtube" or having to actually visit ddg to search Youtube. There's no reason for me to not just use a feature already built into my browser.

shmerl 11y ago
You can create them yourself in Firefox if you want. See http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html
- Nadya 11y ago
  Which is exactly what I explained I use (and why I would use them), but thank you. :) >There's no reason for me to not just use a feature already built into my browser.
morenoh149 11y ago
o.o it's intuitive imo. !g - google, !yf - yahoo finance, !cb - crunchbase, !news - google news, !yt - youtube. Sometimes I just try an abbreviation that makes sense and lo I'm correct. Plus I make ddg my default browser so I do just go to the address bar put `!yt cats` and get youtube cat videos.
- Nadya 11y ago
  Sometimes it's about wanting a trivially shorter keyword. !h searches Hoogle; I would prefer it to search Hacker News. To search Hacker News I have to use !hnsearch or !hn !hn isn't much larger than !h but is still something I would prefer to set myself. !m goes to Google Maps but I would prefer to use another map service. I could use !mapquest but would rather it just be !m !sd goes to Slickdeals instead of Science Daily (which is !sciencedaily , talk about lengthy) E: I just compared my keywords and then searched the DDG Bang list for where I would be taken if I had used DDG instead of ones I set myself. E: >Plus I make ddg my default browser so I do just go to the address bar put `!yt cats` and get youtube cat videos. I just type "y cats" and get youtube cat videos. ;)