Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

Post by magicalist » Fri, Jun 14, 2013, 6:45 AM UTC

Legion wrote: post #55

magicalist wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As is usually pointed out in these threads, if you're using Chrome anyways, you can do the same thing (and with the same bang syntax, if you want to go to the bother of customizing them that way) with the location bar in Chrome. Start typing the web address, hit tab, enter the query, and it just goes straight to wikipedia, google, etc with no DDG intermediary. It's slightly different, but you can do almost the same t…

It's more than "slightly different". By all means, try and replicate this complete list in your Chrome browser: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html . I'll wait... What makes the DDG !bang system awesome is its enormity. You don't look up what !bang to use to search something. You assume it exists, do it, and 99% of the time, you're right. That's a game changer. I don't write Perl, but I know !cpan exists. I don't even h…

Post by davidjgraph » Fri, Jun 14, 2013, 6:51 AM UTC

laureny wrote: post #58

Pretty lame of DuckDuckGo to use this controversy to gain some cheap exposure. Besides, there are zero guarantees that they are immune to the kind of accusation currently aimed at Google and co.

Post by hayksaakian » Fri, Jun 14, 2013, 7:00 AM UTC

magicalist wrote: post #61

Legion wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more than "slightly different". By all means, try and replicate this complete list in your Chrome browser: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html . I'll wait... What makes the DDG !bang system awesome is its enormity. You don't look up what !bang to use to search something. You assume it exists, do it, and 99% of the time, you're right. That's a game changer. I don't write Perl, but I know !cpan exists. I don't even h…

You don't have to replicate the list. Why would you want to? If you've visited a site before and it has a search box on it that matches some heuristic, it gets added to your search engine list. Odds are, far more than 99% of the time, you're going to be searching a site you've already visited before. I agree it is very handy.

Post by lloeki » Fri, Jun 14, 2013, 7:08 AM UTC

iAinsley wrote: post #7

depsypher wrote: post #5

The only thing stopping me from making this switch is that doing arithmetic in the url bar stops working... I use that quite a bit. Is this some deep integration with chrome or can it be made to work with ddg as well?

Use AlfredApp for arithmetic ;)

Post by bru » Fri, Jun 14, 2013, 7:11 AM UTC

pilooch wrote: post #56

DDG is nice initiative. The problem is that it does not solve any problem related to privacy because it is based on a matter of trust. Distributed search, similar to bittorrent, DHT-based designs and the like are notoriously difficult. I've participated in such efforts, like the Seeks Project [1], Yacy [2], and related initiatives like Unhosted [3], and it takes a certain amount of dedication (and suffering ;) ). How…