Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”

Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by MarHoff on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:07AM (#18291673)

With DuckDuckGo you can always use the !g syntax to switch to google if first results don't suit you need.

By my experience DDG usually provide way more appropriate answers when you are looking for a reference or a documentation entry. Google still is better for recently pushed contents like news and is still marginally better for finding result inside Q&A sites. After 1-2 years of DDG by default I tend to know in advance which query is best for which search engine and so I half conscientiously add the !g while typing when needed.

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Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by mcbits on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:22AM (#18292142)

I don't know why so many DDG users use '!g' unless they're using Edge or just aren't aware that Chromium and Firefox both let you create an arbitrary keyword like 'g' for a search provider, which is a lot easier to type.

Some of the other bang commands do look useful, though.

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Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by MarHoff on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:58AM (#18292451)

Guess I have a "localized" deformation as french keyboard include a ! character accessible without any key modifier, so it's actually pretty straightforward to use.

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Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by callalex on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:59AM (#18292974)

That won’t take you through DDG’s anonymizing proxy though.

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Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by mcbits on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:49AM (#18293443)

For me, !g just redirects to a normal Google search.

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