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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by cpeterso on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:19PM (#18436490)
I just DDG and have found !bang shortcuts that are broken or 404 for weeks. I've tried reporting the problems on their feedback forms or Reddit, but never got any responses. If it was open source, I could have submitted a pull request to fix them. I'm surprised they don't have automatic heartbeat queries with expected results for every bang shortcut, at least.
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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by brentadamson on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:43PM (#18436687)
I had the same issue with them back when I was a user. If you find any broken !bangs at Jive Search feel free to submit a pull request.
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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by gregknicholson on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:36AM (#18439775)
Is there a way to go straight to the first result using Jive Search? With DuckDuckGo searching for "example !" does this. (This is the main reason I don't use Searx.)
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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by brentadamson on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:03AM (#18440965)
I've opened up an issue: https://github.com/jivesearch/jivesearch/issues/83

I didn't see the "!" documented anywhere but it seems to work at DDG. (We'll also add "\example" to do the same). https://duck.co/help/results/syntax

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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by brentadamson on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:55PM (#18456745)
Just got done adding it. Let me know if there are any issues.
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