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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by nvrspyx on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:06PM (#18101465)
Well, if your browser's set search engine is DDG, !bangs can be used in the address bar. They're just shortcuts to other search engines. For example, if you wanted to search for Matt Damon on IMDB, you'd just type "!imdb matt damon" in your address bar and it'll forward the "matt damon" query to IMDB's search.

More specifically, typing "!imdb matt damon" will simply forward you to the following link: https://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=matt%20damon

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More examples:

!a soap => https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo...

!hn duckduckgo => https://hn.algolia.com/?query=duckduckgo&type=story&dateRang...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by kalleboo on Sunday September 30, 2018 @08:44AM (#18105934)
> typing "!imdb matt damon" will simply forward you to the following link

In Safari, typing "imdb matt damon" and hitting the down arrow before enter gives me the same result. Do other browsers not have site search built-in? It will also pick up search fields on any site you browse you instead of requiring it to be added to some central repository.

And I use Spotlight for calculator and unit/currency conversions. Seems wasteful to roundtrip that kind of stuff online.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by h1d on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:11PM (#18103201)
Too bad usually the general search engines are smarter than individual sites' search engines, I don't get how it's really useful than not having the bang.
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