Okay, this is pretty damn neat.
I just searched for "!a laptops" and was sent straight to Amazon's laptop search page.
Search Bangs
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi. Do you have a list of the bangs that don't work for you? I can forward them to be looked into.
Thanks! * !d20srd (D&D reference search) and its alias !d20 are 404. There is also !srd, which searches the same site but actually works. These bangs should be merged. * !zillow (real estate search for an address) will show the neighborhood the address is in, but not the exact match. Search for the same, pre-populated address on the site shows the exact match. This is a problem with the way DDG is encoding of the sea…
Thanks for the details. I've reported the d20 ones - there was also !d&d that should go to the same site.
For Zillow, it seems appending "_rb" to the end of the address makes it work so I've requested that. We do get hundreds of !bang suggestions and updates though, so it make take a little while.
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#63Here's a handy blog on search bangs: http://duckgobang.com
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#64I 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..."
I see this happening only in !cpan1 it takes you to first result based on the keyword on metacpan.org
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#65Is 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…
> NCR feature disappeared
Have you tried using it again? I kept forgetting that it was gone, until one day it started working again.
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#66ddg 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.
But if you type "dragon book amazon" into Google, it will do exactly what was intended. No bangs needed.
To make matters worse, if I type "dragon book" into the Amazon search bar directly, I'm getting the wrong results.
(Both searches done from a fresh incognito tab.)
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#67So what is the difference between this and google's "site:"?
The latter works for any site, there is no need for a custom list of 8000 sites.
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#68So what is the difference between this and google's "site:"? The latter works for any site, there is no need for a custom list of 8000 sites.
"site:amazon.com" vs "!a" saves 13 characters.
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#69So what is the difference between this and google's "site:"? The latter works for any site, there is no need for a custom list of 8000 sites.
Google `site:wikipedia.org` search (which also works in DuckDuckGo) uses Google's interface and index, i.e., you get a Google search results page. With Search Bangs, you get a search results page using that uses a websites own engine, e.g., it's filling out a search term with a template like `http://wikipedia.org/?search=*`.
This is actually very old idea that used to be implemented in various browsers and extensions. Here's a support page for Fireboxes implementation, which might still work[1]. Personally, I do this on OS X with LaunchBar Search Templates[2], which is nice because it's browser agnostic.
[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
[2]: https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/SearchTemplate...
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#70I use `!rustn` because it's more convenient than actually loading my local copy of the rust documentation.