So til that if you use DuckDuckGo search engine, and you’re not happy with the result and want to run the previous search through Google, instead of copying your search, then heading to Google, then pasting your previous search, you can just add !g to front of your search in DuckDuckGo and that will auto direct you to Google and run that search for you!
For example: !g search term for Google
Its amazing, I work in the IT industry, I love exploring different areas of tech, but the concept of bangs in a search engine has never come up haha. I’ve seen not ever really used them in a terminal when forgetting to run a command as sudo
There’s also searXNG (https://docs.searxng.org/ which is a customisable search. I like to use Paulgo.io.
I really need to try this out at some point. Just been too lazy to give it a shot
Firefox also allows to make them for different search fields, e.g. if I write pic and then my querry, it brings me images.google.com results. Kinda nice if bangs don’t cover your usecases.
Where do I go to configure that?
If you bookmark a URL you can add
%sto the URL somewhere to add a query. If you the use a keyword on the bookmark (the bottom field, usually) you can do[keyword] termand it’ll replace the%swithtermThe most powerful bang is
!, which is “I’m feeling lucky”. It combines with everything.mdn http status !will show you the http status code list on mdn,GitHub actions docs workflow context !will lead you right to the correct docs.