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Re: Search Bangs

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Post by bigiain »

buckbova wrote: post #12

ddg is my default and this is the killer feature for me. I type in "houston !gmaps" and right to google maps focused on Houston. I copy paste "[error] !so" and get relevant stack overflow search, "[actor] !imdb" etc.

Blekko used to do this really well - I stopped using it when it seemed to be turing into an SEO tool instead of a search engine several years back.

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Post by aibara »

Steko wrote: post #20
cheez wrote: post #3

My most used bangs: ! (go to the first result) and !g (perform search on Google). Occasionally, I'll use !w (Wikipedia). They really make it easy to get to where you wanted to go.

!gis (google image) and !gri (reverse image) are both quite useful.

A shorter bang to search google images: !i

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Post by hrktb »

cisstrd wrote: post #7

Is there a really good in-depth up-to-date comparison somewhere between duckduckgo and google? For example: I don't see any advantage in those search bangs, simply searching "shoes amazon" on google will do the job, or if I really want to search a specific site one can easily do "shoes site: amazon.com", and considering all the other things google can do... duckduckgo might do some of those things, some of those even…

Where google has lost me is on country detection. It's virtually impossible to change country context.

NCR feature disappeared, and even choosing a specific language for the search results won't prevent some results from one's country to bubble up at the top (i.e. if I am in France, setting the interface in english and asking results for 'any region' will still boost french results)

It's just huge PITA to search for resources in a global context, which is the majority of my searches. DDG is a lot more sensible and manageable in this respect.

Re: Search Bangs

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Post by Steko »

aibara wrote: post #23
Steko wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

!gis (google image) and !gri (reverse image) are both quite useful.

A shorter bang to search google images: !i

Thank you! I had assumed !i was ddg images for some reason.

Re: Search Bangs

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Post by JasonSage »

I use bangs very frequently and quite like them.

Probably the ones I use most are !gh to search github or !npm to search npm (although npmsearch.com is often more useful).

One thing I wish I could do was combine the first-result bang (!) with other bangs (like !gh). That would translate into "take me to the first result on github for these search terms..."

Re: Search Bangs

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Post by joslin01 »

I prefer Google's built into Chrome where you start typing (e.g.) amaz then let it autocomplete then press then search away. Easier than remembering bangs and gets me a headstart on somewhere I know I'm already going (youtube is another good one)
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