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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by RedShift1 on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:06PM (#24623517)
What does that do?
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by AnonHP on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:14PM (#24623570)
It’s called a “bang command”, [1] and DDG redirects that search to another site. You can set DDG as your default search engine but rely on these commands to search on other sites. Just put the bang command anywhere in your search term or phrase.

In this case, “!g” means search on google.com. So you get redirected to Google for that search. You can search on Startpage with !s, Wikipedia with !w, IMDB with !imdb, Amazon with !a, Google Images with !gi and so on. There are thousands of bang commands.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by gkoberger on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:13PM (#24623563)
Redirects you to a Google search (try it here: https://duck.com?q=!g%20test)
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by krimpenrik on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:13PM (#24623561)
A google search
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by tejtm on Monday September 28, 2020 @11:58PM (#24624040)
with less bubble/tracking I think. but I only !g a few times a year so not an expert on it
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Re:Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo by chinathrow on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:04AM (#24625202)
Why would there be less tracking? It's a regular google search, accessed directly from within your browser window.
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