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 / 2 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 / 22 days 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 / 4 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

Here are prior HN posts on micromanagement, you tell us: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=micromanagement > "I try to communicate with my team..." This feels weird, when you ask them directly "Why did this milestone get missed, when it seemed on-track?", what are they telling you? Do they have other priorities and tasks from other managers? Else, what is going on? If you ask the other managers, what do they tell you? - Source: Hacker News / about 13 hours ago

It's a common suggestion but I don't think it would work and have posted quite a few times about why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderation%20log&sort=byDate&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / about 22 hours ago

Top obituary posts on hn: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=has%20died&sort=byPopularity&type=story. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

Coincidentally, jwz does/did the same thing (nonconsensual porn harassment for I don't know what reasons [0]), and he was one of the original developers of Mozilla. (This isn't supposed to be a fun fact. All of this sucks). [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jwz%20referer&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

Https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=users%20flag%20flamewar%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago