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Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by dhritzkiv on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:59PM (#23772483)
It's always a shame that W3Schools comes up before literally any other reference, notably MDN. I've always attributed it to their SEO efforts.
Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by admax88q on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:25PM (#23773870)
W3Schools and now TutorialsPoint.

While they're not bad per say, they;re never detailed enough of a reference. 99% of my webdev searches are now "mdn <topic>" as MDN is typically the most detailed resource on the topic (short of reading the exhaustingly verbose standards).

Of course now that I search "mdn <topic>" for everything I'm not training google's engine to match <topic> with the mdn resource, which helps cement w3schools as the top result for the topic

Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by Jestar342 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:04PM (#23775214)
> !mdn <term>

is the greatest tool of ddg. Hundreds of search shortcuts available as "bangs"

Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by t0astbread on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:56PM (#23776247)
If you're using Firefox you can also go to MDN, right click the search box and click "Add a Keyword for this Search...". It's (almost) like a DDG Bang but local to your browser (and for me it's a lot faster too).

It gets even more crazy once you realize Firefox is just saving a bookmark with a form submission template and you can make forms that "send" GET requests to data URIs and if you combine that with the keyword search you can run tiny web apps from your bookmarks using "commands" in your omnibar!

Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by admax88q on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:22AM (#23780552)
I find the ddg search results load faster and are better indexed than the MDN built-in search, same goes for most sites that do their own indexing and are also indexed on big search engines.
Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by Jestar342 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:39AM (#23778168)
My default engine is already set to DDG anyway, so I can just !bang in the addressbar already.
Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by SahAssar on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:04AM (#23789548)
In my experience the search on MDN sucks, and I usually get much better MDN results by searching for "mdn <searchterm>" on DDG than I get for "<searchterm>" on mdn.
Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by Lorin on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:37PM (#23773967)
I use an extension aptly called 'Remove W3Schools' - I'll give you one guess as to what it does.