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Re:DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day by JoelTheSuperior on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:16PM (#13450979)
A thousand times this. Initially I wasn't a fan if I'm perfectly honest, but once I got my head around such brilliant things as the bang syntax I've been finding Google almost awkward to use by comparison. Being able to search Wikipedia with !w is brilliant.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day by throwaway91111 on Saturday January 21, 2017 @01:18PM (#13451292)
This is built into most browsers--you don't need to forward the query through a third party.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day by nitrogen on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:54PM (#13451742)
For the curious, that's what the search "keyword" is for. Over time, Firefox has made it harder to add new search engines and find/modify their settings, but it definitely still works.
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