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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by digi_owl on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:33PM (#17431435)
Really glad i switched to DDG for my random searches (i can always do a !g if i feel that the results are meaningless).
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by Naga on Saturday June 30, 2018 @06:18PM (#17433021)
I switched to DDG permanently because of their other bangs. I am a baseball fan and regularly use FanGraphs to look at stats. If I google a baseball player, FanGraphs isn't even on the front page. Instead, I have news articles about him, tweets from him, and a bunch of other sites. With DDG, I can simply go "!fg jose bautista" and get exactly what I want. It really has saved me a lot of time and effort. Same thing with !w for wikipedia.
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by kalleboo on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:38AM (#17439718)
Do other browsers not have site search in the address bar? In Safari, after visiting "fangraphs.com" once, I can just type "fang Some Name", press the down arrow to select the first suggestion, hit enter, and it searches that site.
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by jamesb93 on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:47PM (#17433309)
Wow... I always hated how sometimes the results for really niche things would not be found by DDG so I swapped back to evil corp search. I can't believe I haven't used these !g commands before! Thanks
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