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Re: Search Bangs

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Post by emdd » Thu, May 26, 2016, 3:23 PM UTC

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…

But, let's say you want to look at images of shoes. If you google "shoe images", it brings you to the main search page for images, you have to click over to "Images" results.

if you DDG for: "!gi shoe images", it will automatically do this for you.

Re: Search Bangs

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Post by hrktb » Thu, May 26, 2016, 4:35 PM UTC

probably_wrong wrote: post #65

hrktb wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There was this old thread with an alternative way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791018

I tried both but it seems still dead (or t's because I'm on mobile ?).

To be honest I don't think it will either come back. There is such a long trend of getting rid of generic searches that it seems that Google has a very natural incentive to do so.

I wouldn't be surprised that providing non localized search results has a very high cost (be it in performance, ad results or any other metric) on Google's side. It must feel logical in their position to reduce that cost to a minimum.

Re: Search Bangs

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Post by circuit_breaker » Sat, May 28, 2016, 12:45 AM UTC

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.

I had no idea the bangs didn't have to be the be the first thing you enter. My life is now a lot easier, thanks!