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Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Gorroth@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I switched to Duckduckgo recently. So far it works good and gives me helpful results. Can’t give long time Test results, using it since a week. But I think it gets the job done.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was very happy am that Apple added it as a default option in iOS. I had been using it off and on for years but now it’s been my default in various browsers for I guess about 3-4 years. Generally I find what I want with no problem, but still need to append !g and get the results from Google for some searches. Maybe about 10%, and more often on image searches.

[–] Gorroth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That is really good to hear! I also added it as default search engine in safari and brave since I switched. Thought I have to go full in in order to give it a chance. Where exactly do you add the „!g“?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Anywhere in the search string works, and then it redirects you to google.

Oh, and the feature is called “bangs”. I knew there were a good handful of them but apparently there are a ton! Over 13,000?

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

[–] Almighty5617@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The "!g" is part of something called "bangs" on DuckDuckGo. Bangs are prefixes to redirect your query to another search engine. For example "!g How to pet a cat" will redirect you to Google, searching for "How to pet a cat"

Other useful bangs are "!m" for maps, "!gi" for Google images, "!so" for stack overflow.

You can find more about it at the bangs page: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

[–] haulyard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Been using it exclusively for years with no issues.

[–] Danatronic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Same, I've never found it to be significantly worse than google except in AI-aided features like Reverse Image Search.