Once you start using DuckDuckGo with "bangs," it's hard to go back. Just add "!" followed by a platform's initials to your query for a site-specific search.
'!chat' for AI, '!r' for reddit, and '!yt', & 13,567+ 🤍🤌
If you're still using Google, give DDG a serious try. When you really need Google results, just add "!g" to your query. It's simple yet powerful.
DDG isn't perfect, but Google is worse—it's not even close.
Learn more about DDG bangs and maybe try it as your default search engine for a few days: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
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Thanks for the pro tip! Love DDG. Love not using Google even more
Interesting ... just tried it on Brave Search, and they work there as well.
Brave is my go-to; I use it all the time with !brave on DuckDuckGo.
I avoid !g and DuckDuckGo's default search as much as possible. Since DuckDuckGo uses Bing, the results aren't great.
Interestingly, Brave is building their own independent search index, which is really great and important.
I mainly use DDG to search other sites.
Mojeek has their own independent index as well. Mojeek seems to give less bias results than G or Brave.
By the way, if you decide to give it a try, please share your experience here, whether good or bad. It would be very helpful, I'm building custom features/add-ons for AppCore's DDG web search. Any suggestions are more than welcome 🫂
Let's bang ASAP!
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I’ve slowly started eliminating goog/yt from my life. DDG is my default so thank you for this post.
-Im even using one of those new privacy “unplugged” android phones. No google location services. Migrating away from gmail next. Proton.me is almost indistinguishable
The only thing I really miss is google maps 😢
I just submitted a request for the "!nostr" bang on DuckDuckGo, nostr band as search engine.
If approved, it will allow you to search Nostr directly on DDG by simply adding "!nostr" at the start. 🤞 https://image.nostr.build/0d747feaf4f5e54418c532cd8cabd6f5095eb6d5581e96650b6df4ded1b40fc1.jpg
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Microsoft trackers?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/
Yes, in fact, DuckDuckGo's default search is also a Bing wrapper.
Brave seems to be the best available option; it does some tracking but is at least building its own index. The results aren't there yet, but they are improving.
Overall, none of them are perfect, but they're still nowhere near what Google does. I personally wanted to reduce Google usage, and DDG has definitely helped with that.
I use Brave a lot. Its great. One-click Tor functionality is nice too!
Have you tried Perplexity? I feel like you don’t even need bangs if you just use Perplexity for search. I have it set as my default search engine on my browser.
https://www.perplexity.ai
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