They're called bangs. :)
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Using DDG to route into Google defeats the point of avoiding Google in the first place.
Use !sp instead to route your search through Startpage, which is essentially Google without the Google BS.
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That feature to search a multitude of websites via Duck Duck Go was a gamechanger when I found out about it some years ago. I've not gone back since.
Bangs also work on Kagi.
!Arch - The Archlinux wiki, btw
But why would I want a bunch of ads and SEO shit that doesn't answer my question?
Or g! Or at the end.
Also w! for wikipedia.
I think there's a few more.
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Huh. Did not know that.
But also why?! If I thought that Google search would be more effective I just would have used Google to begin with.
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This works in Brave search too, at the beginning or at the end of the query string. There are 12474 bangs available as of the moment of writing this comment (!). I believe all of those work on DDG too.
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Works in brave too!
I use !gi a lot because brave image search sucks lol
Wanna search on “google” without selling your data to google.
Well just like duckduckgo is basically bing but with trackers removed, startpage https://startpage.com/ is the same for google!
Or use !()startpage for more private search using google's results. Sadly it's much more typing.
Edit: there's !s bang, it's as short as !g
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