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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by JBReefer on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:13PM (#15009772)
Do you use the bang system in DDG? I think that more than makes up the difference.
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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by Sargos on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:02PM (#15013416)
If you have to remember to use arbitrary bangs to get specific results then DDG has already failed as a search engine. Coding a query yourself is obviously the most powerful way to search documents, but the key to useful software is to do the hard work for you.
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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by stephenr on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:13AM (#15016152)
Bangs dont 'get specific results' - they're shortcuts to let you do site-specific 'searches', on that site.

So, if I want to check the versions of haproxy in the various Debian suites, then `!dpkg haproxy` would take me to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=haproxy.

If I just want general results about HAproxy, that isn't what a bang is for.

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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by 27182818284 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:39AM (#15015546)
I do, but doing !g or !fl seems to defeat the purpose.
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