[fooqux]

But it's already set up for you in DDG, so why not use it?

Aside from the fact it's another HTTP request, but these days on the majority of computers and connections, that's a trivial thing.

I'll add that !aw to search the Arch Wiki and !aur to search the AUR are my two most favorite commands.

[AdmiralAsshat]

> But it's already set up for you in DDG, so why not use it?

Because if I wanna search Reddit, I'd prefer to have '!r' search directly within Reddit and not litter my browser history with tons of duckduckgo entries like this:

https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%...

[dingnuts]

weird example considering just how bad Reddit's internal search is and always has been -- that's a site I've always preferred to search with an external search engine, be it Google, DDG, or Kagi lol

doesn't hurt to have options! to each his own

[AdmiralAsshat]

Best example I could come up with on-the-spot, because I already swapped out Google, Amazon, and Wikipedia on my Firefox install for native search engines, and needed to quickly generate search results from a DDG bang so I could show the accompanying history page. :P

[plugin-baby]

> Aside from the fact it's another HTTP request

You’d think DDG could avoid this via JavaScript if they wanted to. Might be better for privacy, if not for their usage stats.