DuckDuckGo: Bang Reviews and details

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• 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 / 3 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 / 4 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

• Ask HN: Are there valid Google Search alternatives?

  +Bangs!! https://duckduckgo.com/bangs eg type "jazz music!yt" and it will do a youtube search, !s for startpage, !g for google etc. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

  Good to see DuckDuckGo's Bang syntax [1] has become commonplace with alt search engines. Following convention, Kagi lets you append !g to divert the search on Google. A simple escape hatch like that is worthwhile as Google is often superior for local-area searches, in my experience. I've dabbled with a multitude of search engines recently and that is one thing badly missing from Bing. 1. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Firefox Address Bar Tips

  DDG bangs[0] does this too but without the need to set up your own custom macros. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Firefox Address Bar Tips

  Btw if you also use DuckDuckGo, you can start your search with "!hn" and "!r" bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• What’s the point of using DuckDuckGo/Startpage if the sites you visit from your searches track you?

  Yeah they have tons of these! Other ones I use regularly are !w for Wikipedia, !r for reddit, !aw for Arch Linux Wiki, !ste for Steam etc. Source: 11 months ago

• Is this true?

  Look, just see for yourself: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. Source: 12 months ago

• Google Stock Drops as Samsung Considers Switching Its Devices to Bing

  Apparently there's over ten thousand of these https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Google Captcha all the time

  If you really need Google Search results, from previous posts a couple of workarounds are to use Startpage, or DuckDuckGo. Startpage search results are from Google. You can also get Google search results from DDG by using !bangs. Neither have captchas. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do I exclude alibaba and aliexpress from shopping results?

  Also there's a list if them you can search here, but honestly you can usually just guess at an abbreviation and it will work most of the time. Source: about 1 year ago

• Save yourself a click, or even two.... Site Search is now in Arc! (Via TBC Twitter)

  I still think the !bang syntax on DuckDuckGo is superior to this—I mean, 10,000+ bangs can't be wrong. Source: about 1 year ago

• Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the Bard chatbot would make mistakes. It called Google a monopoly and asked for the government to break it up.

  Instead of searching stuff you search for !s stuff or !yt stuff and it'll redirect you to the right place. There's tons of options. Source: about 1 year ago

• Custom search engines not working?

  There are workarounds like DuckDuckGo's !Bangs, but it just doesn't feel the same for me. Source: about 1 year ago

• DuckDuckGo Introduces New AI Feature: DuckAssist

  Overview of the various bangs you can use: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Why is google search so fucking bad now?

  Honestly just switch to duckduckgo and start using their !bang-shortcut search, a real gamechanger. Source: about 1 year ago

• Need help with finding privacy and balancing my work and personal setup!

  DDG is great. You can use bangs when you wanna use another engine. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

  Duck has come a long way and is seriously useful now. The Bangs are fantastic time savers too. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ever since I deleted my Gmail/Google accounts, Why is Google always asking me for CAPTCHA verification every time I search?

  It's DuckDuckGo's shortcut (called "bangs") that gives you Google search results without you going to google directly. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs. Source: about 1 year ago