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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by sli on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:05PM (#22110924)
> Side note - most browsers offer 'search shortcut' customization options, so you can start an address-bar search with !g or !b or whatever to seamlessly swap to your fallback(s).

While you indeed can configure browsers to do this, I think you may be erroneously attributing a DDG feature to -- or duplicating a DDG feature in -- your browser, because those are built in DDG bang commands.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by rahuldottech on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:16PM (#22111030)
I know for a fact that Firefox can also implement bangs like Duckduckgo out of the box, although you have to manually set it up.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:43PM (#22111321)
They used to have some default keywords, "g", "w", etc. (you enter "g key words" to search Google for the keywords. If they're not default anymore they're very easy to do.

I like the way Chrome shows it has recognised the keyword after you press space though, neat feedback, good design IMO.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by cpeterso on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:58PM (#22111477)
Firefox has a few builtin keyword searches like "@g" (Google) and "@w" (Wikipedia):

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/cfd1cc461f1efe0d66...

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by Symbiote on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:52PM (#22111417)
This was a feature in Opera from something like 2002. That browser was ahead of its time.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by Drdrdrq on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:33PM (#22111859)
Konqueror was even further ahead. After you searched for something via search engine and then opened a page, it offered you buttons which could be used to search for those same terms on the result page. Very useful, but never saw it elsewhere.
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