What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?

Re:What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo? by Secretmapper on Sunday October 28, 2018 @12:56PM (#18321515)

You can use the g! prefix and it will go to Google. I found DDG plenty good enough for my use case, and in the rare case I can't find it there I just use g! and bam.

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Re:What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo? by tobr on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:57PM (#18322760)

I thought “g!” as opposed to “!g” was a typo, but TIL both ways work equally fine! Thanks!

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Re:What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo? by Mountain_Skies on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:55PM (#18323133)

Bang commands are such a wonderful feature on DDG. Not just for searching other engines when the DDG results aren't what I'm looking for but also for ecommerce sites. The frontpage of most sites are extremely heavyweight and you have to go through a ton of garbage just to get to a search box. Being able to add !homedepot to a DDG search and have it send me to the search results page at Home Depot and not the DDG spidering of the site is pretty nifty feature. I do most of my searches of shopping sites that way now.

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Re:What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo? by djsumdog on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:13PM (#18350679)

I often use the other ones to go directly to the search I want: !imdb, !w (wikipedia), !rt (rotten tomatoes), etc.

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