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A comment on Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by Vinnl on Monday January 09, 2017 @04:25AM (#13355109)
Set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and you don't even need to do any configuring. You can then just type `!wiki India` or `!gi birds` or any other !bang: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by shezi on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:01AM (#13355454)
I've tried that, and while it is nice and useable it is also significantly slower, going through DDG for one more complete roundtrip, than it is going directly to a URL you already know.
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