MetaCrawler VS DuckDuckGo: Bang

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MetaCrawler mentions (2)

• Study Says Almost 30% of People Are Redoing or Refining Their Google Searches/On Reddit, people have also complained about crummy Google Search results

  I'm not sure how much the current metacrawler.com has in common with the older versions, but it does seem to work quite well. Source: over 1 year ago

• The internet is becoming less and less useful

  Nice. Earlier this week after trying a fairly simple search query that would have been a cinch to find actual web pages that talked about my topic, Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, all failed big time. I mean, the majority of the first twenty results didn't even contain my first search term. I went looking for "old school" search engines that might still adhere to boolean search rules, and most of the classics either no... Source: over 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo: Bang mentions (197)

• Search engine market share in the US for April 2024

  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 / 20 days ago

• Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles

  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

• Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA string sniffing

  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 / 4 months ago

• Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext

  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

• Wine 9.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

  Kagi uses the same bangs as duckduckgo (and more), so there should already be 4 different bangs for it https://duckduckgo.com/bangs?q=protondb. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago