Today I Learned @lemmy.world Keshara @lemmy.world 4d ago

TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google

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

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Bangs are great.

My favorites are:

!w for Wikipedia

!d for a Dictionary

!t for a Thesaurus

!yt for YouTube

!archiveweb for the Internet Archive

and I've found it usually works with pretty much any site name you're thinking of searching (e.g. if you want to look up a movie on IMDB, chances are !imdb will take you there.)
- You forgot the most important one
  
  !aw for Arch Wiki
- This is just one of multiple bangs for the Internet Archive, and probably more intuitive and quick ones include:
  
  !ia for the Internet Archive generally
  
  !wbm for the Wayback Machine
  
  oh, thanks, that'll make it way quicker for me to type out!
- !wa for Wolfram Alpha and !aw for the Arch Wiki as well!
- The dictionary bang is 100% something I'll be using quite often moving forward
- !ud Urban Dictionary
  
  !startrek Star Trek wiki
  
  !stargate Stargate wiki
  
  !wayback Wayback Machine
  
  !tineye Reverse image search
  
  !bang Check if there are any DuckDuckGo bangs for a particular site
  
  !itad Is There Any Deal?
  
  !steam Steam store
  
  !sp Startpage
  
  You can also use a bang itself, with nothing else before or after it, to just go to the homepage for that website. That can be simpler than typing out the whole URL.

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