Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by koonsolo on Thursday January 17, 2019 @01:00PM (#18932915)

I still have the opposite feeling. For a lot of things that I search, google still presents me more relevant results. Although DDG is catching up. Until recently, it always presented me with old.haxe.org results for some reason instead of the current version, but now it works fine.

The reason why DDG is my default url-bar search is because of the 'bangs'!g for google, !yt for YouTube, !w for Wikipedia and !t for thesaurus (when looking for variable names ;)), !gm for google maps, etc. Very handy.

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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by vatueil on Thursday January 17, 2019 @02:56PM (#18934010)

Custom keyword searches are also natively supported by Firefox and Chromium-based browsers:

- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-search-from-address-bar

- https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

- https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426

- https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/24227/complete-guide-to-keyw...

You don't even need to type a 'bang' (!): just use whatever keyword you want. And you can add any search engine you'd like.

Browser keywords are also handy for navigating to certain websites, not just searches. For example:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/%s

(or old.reddit.com if you prefer the old reddit UI) with a keyword such as 'rr', so that typing 'rr aww' in the address bar takes you to the /r/aww subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww

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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by auiya on Thursday January 17, 2019 @01:44PM (#18933312)

The saving grace for DDG is search directors (bangs) and privacy shielding. Their problem however, is these are incredibly trivial things for Google to also implement.

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