[pbhjpbhj]

I tried DDG for a while (a month, but probably a year ago now) but found I was always doing "!g <search terms>". So I just went back to using the address bar for searching and just the standard FF shortcuts (called "search engine keywords" IIRC) + a few extras I've added over the years.

On Firefox I have

g - google

ddg - duckduckgo

yt - youtube

w - wikipedia

etc.

easy to type without the bang at the front (Google and Wikipedia are defaults, not sure what the other ones are). I gather on DDG you can use them at the end so you need the ! as a delimiter.

[Ar-Curunir]

you can use startpage if you want Google's results with none of the privacy leakage.

[icebraining]

I wonder how they got that deal.

[Ar-Curunir]

They pass your queries through a proxy, so you have to trust startpage, I guess.

[icebraining]

No, I mean, I wonder how Startpage got a deal from Google to proxy their results. What's in it for Google?

[jimmaswell]

A nice thing about these is that they work on Firefox Mobile if you sync it.