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by richardboegli 3352 days ago
What the article skips over is !bang searches in DuckDuckGo.

This allows you to search other engines, but still have theirs as default

All the engines mentioned can be searched via it. !b !bing !s !startpage !vimeo !giphy etc.....

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Absolutely love the bang searches in DDG. The most used for me is !w for sure, easily go to a wikipedia article.

Only issue I have with it at the moment is that it tends to look for articles in my native language instead of in English but you can probably configure that somewhere and I just have not looked yet. It falls back to English anyway when it can not find one in Dutch.

EDIT: For people on here, !hackernews might be useful :-)

Check their help page here: https://duck.co/help/settings/regions
!wen goes to english wikipedia

!wit goes to italian wikipedia

and so on

Thank you!
!hn for the 10X people ;).