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Re:Google Memory Loss by detaro on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @12:58PM (#16160299)
But browsers already have that functionality built in, why go through DDG for that? (well, Chrome and Firefox do, not sure about others)
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Re:Google Memory Loss by tripzilch on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:01AM (#16176182)
If others = Opera, then yes, they came up with that first :)

I've been using those kinds of keyword search shortcuts for years before switching to DDG by default.

The realisation was that having 100s (maybe 1000s already) of easily-guessable search shortcuts pre-programmed with DDG's !bang syntax is way more useful than having top configure 10-20 of them by yourself (and forgetting most of them when you reinstall a browser). Definitely worth the extra "!" keystroke and redirect :) [especially given DDG doesn't track you via that redirect].

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