Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs

Re:Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no ... by ckardaris on Monday December 29, 2025 @04:42AM (#46418978)

Interesting project. Thanks for sharing.

I am also a fan of DDG bangs and I see two missing features:

1. DDG supports bangs at any place in the query (even in the middle of it). I can search "topic !wiki" and it will work as expected.

2. DDG also supports following the first result in a query if a bare '!' is present in the query. Searching " hacker news !" will land me in the actual website without having to click anything in the results page.

Maybe you can consider adding these.

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Re:Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no ... by UnmappedStack on Monday December 29, 2025 @04:46AM (#46419001)

I actually did not know if these, but I definitely will implement those!

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Re:Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no ... by jbaber on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @09:49PM (#46440762)

I thought ddg supported !s at arbitrary locations, but came across enough exceptions that I now invariably put them at the beginning or end.

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