Was wondering what the hell was going on this morning.

  • jherazob@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    Wait, it supports bangs? That’s the #1 thing that keeps me specifically with DDG, once i have some time i’ll have to explore this (probably not earlier than a couple weeks though)

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      6 months ago

      I was used to the bangs in DuckDuckGo too, but stopped using them. In example I have duckduckgo search engine disabled here, but can still do a ddg only search with !ddg hello . But don’t get your hopes too high, because I think it only supports the few bangs and nothing else. It does not support ddg bangs. I registered a DuckDuckGo bang !retro to point to RetroPie forum, but it does not work in Searx.

      Edit: It would have been a true banger if we could combine them in Searx like this: !ddg!retro

      • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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        5 months ago

        That combination works in Brave to search the forum (prefixing !ddg or !d) I’m surprised it doesn’t in Searx.

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          5 months ago

          I’ve just tested this in Brave and it works. And it does not require the combination, !retro on its own is enough. Nice!

    • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Alternative you may consider is the brave search. Supports many bangs (?all of what ddg supports). It is independent of other search engines as well. But its picture search is poor.