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Re:DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day a... by orta on Monday January 28, 2013 @04:14PM (#5130681)
The major for me is being able to do meta-queries that will be sent to the relevant website, e.g. "!maps 401 broadway to Canal St Station" or "!wa how many stars are in the galaxy"

http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

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Re:DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day a... by lutz on Monday January 28, 2013 @05:08PM (#5130994)
But Google does that already, without needing to type !maps...
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Re:DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day a... by nonamegiven on Monday January 28, 2013 @07:54PM (#5131727)
You get better (short, sane and email-friendly) URLs if you access google searches via DDG bang. !gm = google maps, !g = google search, !gi = google images, etc.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day a... by badgar on Monday January 28, 2013 @08:21PM (#5131825)
So we have DDG as a better solution when you're e-mailing links to google searches. That doesn't add up to hours a week.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day a... by pbhjpbhj on Monday January 28, 2013 @06:48PM (#5131503)
I do the same sort of queries but just use the search keywords feature of Firefox - so that's surely even faster as DDG isn't acting as intermediary to interpret the search request and redirect.

That said I think the competition DDG has provided the other search providers has been a benefit to me.

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