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by trhoad 1624 days ago
What's a "bang"?
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!imdb for a direct IMDB search, !rt for Rotten Tomatoes, !g for google.

DDG calls [0] them bangs, and as I have been using them in recent years, I use that term everywhere now.

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

It's the "!" character that you put in front of certain things, like "!g" ("bang gee") for searching Google through DuckDuckGo.
The second character of the shebang

    #!
Also known as hashbang.