• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    4 days ago

    The bangs are the addictive feature for me. You start by typing !w lemmy in the URL bar, with DDG already configured as the default search engine, and DDG will directly serve the search result for this term from Wikipedia. There are hundreds of them like !yt for YouTube or !gm for Google Maps, and the acronyms are intuitive. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

    • Prathas@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      Why… do you need to go through DDG for this? You can just set those custom search engines yourself in the browser without routing through DDG. They let you put any link (with %s in place of the query’s location in the URL) and almost any keybinding. I have w set to attempt to pull up the direct Wikipedia article on the query, c for Google Contacts, m for Google Maps (ugh, I’ve gotta figure out a way outta these Google snares…), etc.