Using DuckDuckGo as my address bar search.. … but rarely actually searching DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo allows for ‘bangs’ in the search.
For example “London !gmaps” redirects your search to Google Maps. At least half of my searches involve ”!g” to search Google since the DuckDuckGo search isn’t very good.
The wildcard ”!” takes you to the first result on DuckDuckGo’s search. For example, “Interstellar !imdb” is slower than “Interstellar imdb !” since the latter takes you to the first page of the DuckDuckGo search whereas the former takes you to the IMDb search results page.
When using DuckDuckGo with Bangs, I highly recommend the extension “DuckDuckGo !bangs but Faster” (Chrome, Firefox) which processes the bangs client side.
There is a LessWrong bang (!lw) and an EA Forum bang (!eaf) - both are currently broken but I’ve submitted requests to fix.
Using DuckDuckGo as my address bar search..
… but rarely actually searching DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo allows for ‘bangs’ in the search.
For example “London !gmaps” redirects your search to Google Maps. At least half of my searches involve ”!g” to search Google since the DuckDuckGo search isn’t very good.
The wildcard ”!” takes you to the first result on DuckDuckGo’s search. For example, “Interstellar !imdb” is slower than “Interstellar imdb !” since the latter takes you to the first page of the DuckDuckGo search whereas the former takes you to the IMDb search results page.
When using DuckDuckGo with Bangs, I highly recommend the extension “DuckDuckGo !bangs but Faster” (Chrome, Firefox) which processes the bangs client side.
There is a LessWrong bang (!lw) and an EA Forum bang (!eaf) - both are currently broken but I’ve submitted requests to fix.