Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

Re:Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine by hkmurakami on Friday June 14, 2013 @12:23AM (#5878290)

have you checked out some of the !bang options available? I just took a look and here is a sampling of what you have available.

Sysadmin: !apache !awesome !bsd !chef !codeweavers !cookbook !cve !datasheet !distro !distrowatch !eventid !everymac !exex !exploitdb !filext !fsf !fsfe !funtoo !gdiag !gnomebugs !gnu !howtoforge (!htf) !ip !irp !iso !linode !linuxfr !linuxhcl !linuxmint !lxr !mysql !nginxwiki !openbsd !openbsdmisc !opensuse !oracle !osvdb !parabola !peppermintos !playterm !postgresql !psql !puppet !qth !salix !salixforums !sectube !senderbase !spice !splunk !sqlite !susebug !susepkg !technetlib !timestamp !tldp !trisquel !use !vmkb !vol !wog !zahe

Sysadmin (debian): !debbug (!dbugs) !debian !debianforums !debianfr !debml !debmla !debwiki !dfiles !dman !dpackages (!dpkg !dpts) !dtag !fanch

Sysadmin (FreeBSD): !bsdman !fports !freebsd !freshports !fxr

Sysadmin (Gentoo): !gbugs !gentoo !gentoowiki !gpackages !gwiki

Sysadmin (RedHat): !rbugs

Sysadmin (Solaris): !sunpatch

Sysadmin (Ubuntu): !askubuntu !docubu !docubufr !omgubuntu (!omgu) !ppa !puc !ubottu !ubuntuforums (!ubuntuf) !ubuntuusers !uman !upackages !upkg !uu !uude

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

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Re:Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine by johnpmayer on Friday June 14, 2013 @12:51AM (#5878353)

Part of me thinks those are cool, but the rest of my shouts "why should I have to do that?!".

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Re:Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine by Makkhdyn on Friday June 14, 2013 @06:11AM (#5879121)

Because Google learns what your preferences are, DDG don't. This is why there is no "search bubble", unfortunately it comes at a price.

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Re:Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine by bconway on Friday June 14, 2013 @09:51AM (#5879877)

That would be reasonable, except that on all my searches that DDG fails on, Google works perfectly fine in private browsing from a different IP.

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Re:Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine by joeblau on Friday June 14, 2013 @01:00AM (#5878373)

I didn't know about those. The thing about !bang options is that you have to know something more about the problem to know the appropriate place to look--And that's the whole point of a search engine. The search engine should determine if the best/most popular solution to my problem is on one of those !bang sites or if it's on koders.com.

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Re:Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine by jggonz on Friday June 14, 2013 @01:24AM (#5878425)

We're automatically detecting categories on blekko.com now. If you type in a programming question, it should return a category called /programming or /javascript, or whatever the language is you're looking for.

Examples taken from some stackoverflow posts:

http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNo...

http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter

http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20e...

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