Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?

Re:Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size? by gbear605 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:03PM (#17248863)

Check out Bangs on DDG [1]. Just insert "!g" into your search text and it automatically redirects your search to Google. It works for thousands of other websites too. (Wikipedia's !w is one I use all the time)

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

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Re:Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size? by amelius on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:37PM (#17249224)

Yeah, I know about bangs, but on mobile they are cumbersome to use: I have to tap my screen 7 times to change from DDG to Google:

    1. tap DDG search bar
    2. tap space
    3. tap shift key
    4. tap "!"
    5. tap shift key
    6. tap "g"
    7. tap enter key

If DDG included a simple button, it would be 1 tap. Of course, I can't blame them for not linking to Google, but this way I will stick with Google.

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