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Useful DuckDuckGo bangs

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DuckDuckGo bangs are just shortcuts to redirect your search to another search engine. My personal favorites:

  • !gnomebugs — Runs a search on GNOME Bugzilla. Especially useful followed by a bug number. For example, search for ‘!gnomebugs 100000’ and see what you get.
  • !wkb — Same thing for WebKit Bugzilla.
  • !w — Searches Wikipedia.

There’s 6388 more, but those are the three I can remember. If you work on GNOME or WebKit, these are super convenient.

Comments

6 responses to “Useful DuckDuckGo bangs”

  1. Jacobo Aragunde Avatar
    Jacobo Aragunde

    I sometimes use !g and !gi to search in Google and Google images, respectively. While these bangs contradict the very fact of using DDG, they might be useful as a fallback ;)

    1. Michael Catanzaro Avatar
      Michael Catanzaro

      Oh yeah, I use !g all the time too, whenever I don’t immediately see what I’m looking for in DDG’s search results. But I completely forgot about it when writing the post!

  2. andrei Avatar
    andrei

    !gh, !npm, !bower, !tpb, !yt, feeling ducky which is fuzzy dns “facebok !”, !osm, !arch, !copr

  3. mcepl Avatar
    mcepl

    I would add !py and !py3 for the docs.python.org documentation.

  4. Alvin Avatar
    Alvin

    Thanks for this information, dude :)

  5. dani ramdani Avatar
    dani ramdani

    hello :) your information is good hehe :) nice