All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

#1

Post by MichaelMoser123 » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
mosermichael.github.io

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

#2

Post by MichaelMoser123 » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

The page lists all !bang search operators on one page, i think the feature is easier to use when you have all of them in one page; The page is kept in sync with all duckduckgo search operators by a nightly build process. The build script/motivation for the project is here https://github.com/MoserMichael/duckduckbang (my previous submission got ShowHN in the title instead of Show HN, so submitting a second time)

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

#3

Post by andrewzah » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:24 PM UTC

This is really nice! I frequently use

!w - wikipedia

!drs - docs.rs

!http - http status codes

!a - amazon

!yt - youtube

!usps

!fedex

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

#4

Post by Rompect » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

I use `!4_b` a lot

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

#5

Post by henil2911 » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

Woah. I use bang all the time, but never knew there where this many bang's available!

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

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Post by notRobot » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

andrewzah wrote: post #3

This is really nice! I frequently use !w - wikipedia !drs - docs.rs !http - http status codes !a - amazon !yt - youtube !usps !fedex

Adding a few that I find handy:

!so - stackoverflow.com

!su - superuser.com

!hn - HN :)

!php - PHP manual

!ss64 - ss64.com (CLI reference)

!g - Google

!i - DDG images

!gi - Google images

!imdb - IMDb

!rt - Rotten Tomatoes

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

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Post by grimgrin » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

Heck yeah! Some ideas for ya:

1) We can ctrl-f to search obv, but add a filter up top that just fuzzies anything matching

2) Let me condense the header of a category, like how comments can hide their children in here

3) Both of the links in an entry go to the same thing, ala: `discworld` and `!discworld` can be clicked to do the same thing, populate the box up top, which _does_ let you click & press return. But it might be cool if one populated, and the other just took you to the !bang in ddg. Not in a new tab! The user can force it in a new tab if they want

edit: I know #3 basically says "so just take the user to duckduckgo.com?q=!discworld which'll take 'em to whatever site that resolves to?" yeah pr much that, heh

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

Rompect wrote: post #4

I use `!4_b` a lot

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Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

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Post by ectoplasmaboiii » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:39 PM UTC

andrewzah wrote: post #3

This is really nice! I frequently use !w - wikipedia !drs - docs.rs !http - http status codes !a - amazon !yt - youtube !usps !fedex

The ones that I find myself using a lot

!gm - google maps

!sr/!sro - type in subreddit (add o for old reddit)

!so - stack overflow (i usually use it with [tag])

Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

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Post by pkamb » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 5:39 PM UTC

So these all just directly search for that term on the (usually substandard) internal website search box?

I don't get the appeal. I want the bang to show a good/filtered SERP, not load some other site directly. (similar to a `site:x` search on Google I guess.)

What I'd really like to use is a search engine that had custom ranking of domains. I'd heavily weigh it to only show Stack Exchange, Reddit, and forum posts.

Or a `!discussions` bang operator that filtered DDG results into that set.