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by Mountain_Skies 2861 days ago
I use duckduckgo which is bing with a skin and added features. One of those features is "bang commands" which allows you to use a single site to search thousands of other sites individually. If I want to check if my local Home Depot has the particular deck screws I need, adding !homedepot to my duckduckgo query redirects me to Home Depot's search results page. This is very useful as web sites become heavier and heavier which results in a terrible experience just getting to a search box. Ditto Amazon and most other ecommerce sites. Plus it is nice if I don't get the results I am looking for on duckduckgo to just add !g to the query and get redirected to Google's results.