And when you do need google, you can always just add `!g` to your search query. There are a bunch of other useful ones [0], my favorite is probably `!w` [0] https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

Check out https://duckduckgo.com/bangs you can dump into pretty much any site, Wikipedia, YouTube, Spotify, Google Translate from the DDG search bar if you have a few favorite bangs memorized. You can put the ! anywhere in the query for it to be picked up as well. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Seriously, I'm surprised at how many devs haven't seen DuckDuckGo's bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs I use them all the time for work. !mdn for MDN, !dnab for .NET, !npm for NPM, !py3 for Python3 docs, !debman for Debian Manpages, !w for Wikipedia, !a for Amazon, !g for Google when you really need it. I'm not affiliated with DDG; I just really, really love it. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I think everyone in the thread knows about "search engines" in Chrome and bookmark keywords in Firefox. The crux of the issue is that there are more than 10,000 bang commands in DDG. Setting up even a popular subset in any given browser is a significant investment. It's fine if it's the browser you use 99% of the time, but for those spanning multiple computers, phones, and other devices, simply using bang... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Where is the place to add personal bangs to DuckDuckGo? I can't find it in https://duckduckgo.com/bangs or https://duckduckgo.com/settings. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

A useful crowd-sourced resource for finding Google alternatives: https://nomoregoogle.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

My point is more to introduce alternatives to Google. They’ve proven they have little regard for the privacy of their users. Source: over 1 year ago

Https://nomoregoogle.com/ Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you. Source: almost 2 years ago

Each step you take to be more private helps. The simplest you can do is use less Big Tech products. For example, stop using Chrome and use Firefox instead, stop Google search and use Startpage or Duckduckgo, stop Google Maps and use OpenStreetMaps, stop GMail and use e.g. ProtonMail etcA larger list of alternatives is available at https://nomoregoogle.com/Then, you can start by using popular open-source software... Source: almost 2 years ago

Nomoregoogle.com provides a list of alternatives to get you started. Source: over 2 years ago