[leereeves]

Bangs offer a lot more than just !g.

It's actually easier to use some Google services via DDG than via Google itself. For example, the easiest way to access Google Scholar is to use DDG and add !scholar to your search. Likewise for Google Translate and !translate. Like:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hasta+la+vista+!translate&t=ffab

Then there are all the non-Google bangs. !a to search Amazon. !hn to search Hacker News. And so on.

[Fnoord]

DDG bangs [1] and Google Dorks (I just use the nickname bangs en dorks for either) are both very powerful. For me, Google complements DDG; not the other way around. I do agree with the desire for a European-hosted search engine though.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang