What's the value of this over using !bang to search them directly on ddg?
All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
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Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
For many sites, you can probably just guess the bang without much hassle. The easiest example is IMDb, but my success rate guessing is pretty high. Plus, most people tend to spend most of their time on just a few sites. Knowing one or two bangs is useful enough.
I don't use this, but looking at that list, I would disagree. I just looked up some of the top sites I'd want to use and I wouldn't have guessed any of them Wikipedia -> !w Youtube -> !you reddit user -> !reu subreddit -> !reddits also !reddit points to new version, I'd want !redditold Twitter -> !tweet Steam -> !steme (???) Twitch -> !ttv That being said, if you're on DDG, there's pretty good auto complete on bangs…
There are multiple aliases. For instance, I use !yt for YouTube (just checked and !youtube also works), and !twitch for Twitch. I'll agree with the parent in that it's very rare that I'm unable to guess the bang that I want.
Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
For many sites, you can probably just guess the bang without much hassle. The easiest example is IMDb, but my success rate guessing is pretty high. Plus, most people tend to spend most of their time on just a few sites. Knowing one or two bangs is useful enough.
I don't use this, but looking at that list, I would disagree. I just looked up some of the top sites I'd want to use and I wouldn't have guessed any of them Wikipedia -> !w Youtube -> !you reddit user -> !reu subreddit -> !reddits also !reddit points to new version, I'd want !redditold Twitter -> !tweet Steam -> !steme (???) Twitch -> !ttv That being said, if you're on DDG, there's pretty good auto complete on bangs…
In many of these the full name is also a valid bang. For example: !wikipedia !youtube !twitter !steam !twitch.
Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
#24I much prefer Firefox's "keyword" favourites. For example, I have a "cpp ..." search that automatically searched cppreference, another one "cmake ..." that searches CMake's documentation, and so on and so forth
Yeah those are basically the same (and came first), but you have to define and maintain them yourself.
Is there some way to add a big list of search keywords to Firefox without having to type them one by one in the settings screen?
I've been trying to figure out how to do this for years now with no luck.
Re: All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't use this, but looking at that list, I would disagree. I just looked up some of the top sites I'd want to use and I wouldn't have guessed any of them Wikipedia -> !w Youtube -> !you reddit user -> !reu subreddit -> !reddits also !reddit points to new version, I'd want !redditold Twitter -> !tweet Steam -> !steme (???) Twitch -> !ttv That being said, if you're on DDG, there's pretty good auto complete on bangs…
There are multiple aliases. For instance, I use !yt for YouTube (just checked and !youtube also works), and !twitch for Twitch. I'll agree with the parent in that it's very rare that I'm unable to guess the bang that I want.
Yup, throwing my hat into this ring of agreement. I used to have tons of special search engines in Chrome to do this, often aliased as name or something, and I switched to DDG and started using their Bang's just to realize that most of my custom search engines were obsolete and like 2-3 needed to be retrained in my head.
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#26those bangs are really a nice feature. my most often used bang in 2020 unfortunately still remains !g for every time I search something that is related to finding solutions for code / software engineering (or copy paste a problem line from syslog etc). ddg is in almost every case not showing me the most relevant result I want.
I gave up on DDG after giving it a go for a year or so ... I don't know if Google prioritises Stack Overflow or what, but that's what I'm after, most of the time, and DDG just doesn't give me that.
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#27The only operator I use is "!", which is DDG's version of "I am feeling lucky". And I only use this because Google's silently phasing out the functionality[1].
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#28So 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. O…
Well, the appeal is that you can set your searchbox for DDG, and easily search all those others site when you want, no need to load search pages or change search providers.
And it's appealing to me, so I do that. Most people won't agree, most people don't even mess with search providers, but it's doesn't harm them either.
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#29So 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. O…
I use `!rust` all the time when I just want to pull up the rust docs quickly, since their search is much more effective when I just want to know about the API for a File or something, though I don't get much more value out of them than that.
And I've just learned I can use `!posix` to search the open group, which I'll probably use whenever I get upset with macOS's man pages again.
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#30How many bangs do you really remember ? Bangs are cool but i don't think one can remember many bangs. This site is also very good. But, it's unfortunately not much use to me as i would directly search the term with 'site:' during the time i would take to search for specific bang. Also, if i wanted to search specific site, i would add it in search engines of my browser.
I do remember some 4 of them. Those are the ones that I use reasonable frequently. A page like this is nice because you can look in that and see some new operator that would be very useful, but you didn't know of it.
I use those operators instead of setting a new search provider because switching providers is a mouse action, while adding the operator is just some few more key presses.