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Honestly the search bangs are the killer duckduckgo feature. I started using it because I was upset with Google hiding search results, but it's being able to easily search any search engine that keeps me using it.
Bangs are amazing and I use it about 3x as often as I use the normal search on DuckDuckGo.
Yeah, but I almost always end up using the
!gbang anyway. And its so stuck in my fingers that I sometimes mistakenly write!g wen searchphrasewhen I want to search on wikipedia. Im cursed.Honestly I've found that duckduckgo/Bing's results are usually enough, and usually only fallback to Google results if I fail to get anything useful or if it's a very technical query.
What’s that?
Search bangs let you search using any search engine from duckduckgo. So you can type "!g" before your search to search Google. "!w" for wikipedia, "!a" to search Amazon, etc. They have a page on duckduckgo that lets you search all the different search bangs, most every website with a search is included and has multiple search bangs that work. If you don't remember any of the shortened commands, you can usually safely fall back on a longer one (ie if you don't remember !a for Amazon you could do !amazon).