Switch your default search engine to Google

Re:Switch your default search engine to Google by fyarebox on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:35AM (#9206147)

Just coming up on four months, here. Enter!g in your query to automatically redirect it to Google. I do this for about 50% of my searches (mainly looking for docs)

!yt for youtube is useful too, as is just ! for I'm Feeling Lucky and !wiki,!define.

This is the main reason I began DDG, so useful, faster than using a drop down or looking for the relevant site on Google. Not sure if other search providers do this, but I also appreciate the privacy aspect of using DDG.

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Re:Switch your default search engine to Google by blfr on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:04AM (#9206200)

If you're doing that, you may as well define keyword searches in your browser. Which is the ultimate privacy because redirection to the appropriate search engine happens locally.

I have g for Google, gl for feeling lucky in Google, w for Wikipedia, imdb, yt, and many more I never use.

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Re:Switch your default search engine to Google by chongli on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:16AM (#9206368)

I was doing that for a long time in Chrome. Eventually I switched to Firefox and found out that I can't do it on every site and that I often lost all the shortcuts I had created when upgrading browsers or switching machines. Now with DDG I have don't need to worry about it.

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Re:Switch your default search engine to Google by blfr on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:29AM (#9206405)

I do it on Firefox. It's just a bookmark, so you only need to synchronize bookmarks.

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