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o11c  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 3 weeks of DuckDuckGo

If I find a search doesn't work well on DuckDuckGo, I just prepend !g to it.

Honestly, bang searches are what made me switch, not the privacy thing.





steve  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I just prepend !g to it.

tell me more?

xero  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bangs allow for quick searching of other sites for example

!g NASA will redirect you to the google search of NASA

!tpb search's pirate bay

For the full list

https://duckduckgo.com/bang#bangs-list

mk  ·  3369 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No !hubski. :(

bhrgunatha  ·  3369 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To submit a site to DUcjDuckGo, you need to provide a parameterised search URL that can be submitted (as a GET request I guess)

For google you have :

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q= what+is+hubski

which you would submit to DDG as

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q={{{s}}}

I'm not 100% sure but I think they send a GET request.

Hubski's search is a form that uses POST to https://hubski.com/x

You can't submit that to DDG as far as I know.

Perhaps one of the devs could make an end-point like

hubski.com/search?q={{{s}}}

that translates to a hubski internal POST search?

steve  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thanks! this may lengthen DDGs stay as my default browser search...