[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":404},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-4260964":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":45,"post_text":46,"what":47,"said":80,"maker_in_thread":197,"shape":207,"grid":210,"attempts":369,"same_week":370,"maker_shows":302,"maker_hidden":396,"reader_version":397,"card":398},"4260964","DuckDuckGoog","Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else","title","Show HN: Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.duckduckgoog.com","duckduckgoog.com","mcrittenden",1342623065,2012,95,63,230,1677,14,"notable","web_saas","search redirect","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"duckduckgo","google search","bang syntax","browser search","debated",-0.081,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},7,8,1,9,25,{"idea":37,"execution":39,"design":41,"docs":43,"privacy":44},{"positive":38,"critical":38},5,{"positive":33,"critical":40},3,{"positive":42,"critical":33},0,{"positive":42,"critical":42},{"positive":42,"critical":42},[42,42,42,42,42,38,42,42,38,42,33,42,42,42,42,42,40,33,42,33,40,42,33,38,38,40,40,42,40,42,40,33,33,38,33,42,40,38,42,42],null,{"problem":48,"audience":62,"pricing":46,"motivation":70,"time_to_build":46,"stack":76,"openness":77,"stage":78,"team_size":79},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Users want DuckDuckGo's !bang shortcuts without giving up Google results for ordinary queries.","inferred",[52,55,58],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},"4261115","Right, but DDG provides a TON of them so you don't have to add them all manually. For example, I only need to search imdb like once ever 6 months or so, and I don't want to have…",{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},"4261080","Thanks! It's awesome to hear that this is useful for more people than just me.",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"4261388","mrschwabe","Awesome. I think this is the perfect solution for those users 'on the fence' about switching to DuckDuckGo. You can send them this link and say, look - its Google but now you get…",{"value":63,"source":50,"evidence":64},"Browser users who want DuckDuckGo bangs and Google results.",[65,69],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"4261073","stevewillows","This is great! I've tried to adopt DDG but in the end I'm finding myself prefacing everything with !g -- to the point where I will type it for other engines. Nice work!",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":71,"source":72,"evidence":73},"Maker got tired of prefixing every query with !g.","commenter",[74,75],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":81,"objections":94,"requests":132,"questions":155,"alternatives":167},[82,87],{"value":83,"source":72,"evidence":84},"Useful for people who prefix searches with !g.",[85,86],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":88,"source":72,"evidence":89},"Search suggestions are a plus.",[90],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"4261287","rduchnik","I really like the search suggestions.",[95,110,121],{"value":96,"source":72,"evidence":97},"Built-in browser keyword search already does this.",[98,102,106],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"4261102","w1ntermute","You can use keyword searches to get the !bang functionality directly in your browser for any search engine of your choice. There's no need to go through DuckDuckGo.",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"4261207","excuse-me","You mean other browsers don't allow you to create search shortcuts? eg \"a blah\" for amazon, \"w blah\" for wikipedia \"s blah\" for stackoverflow? - says a long time Opera users",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"4261298","jemfinch","Every time I see someone laud ddg's !bang searches, I ask myself, \"What makes managing your browser's configuration so damn hard?\" I go to Chrome's \"settings\", I click \"Manage…",{"value":111,"source":72,"evidence":112},"Google results do not auto-focus the search box on load.",[113,117],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"4261335","missing_cipher","Small suggestion: You should give focus to the text area when the user lands on the page, so I can instantly search and not have to reach for the mouse or tab.",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"4264141","strangetimes","Yes. I was so excited to use this but my heart broke when I realized the search box wasn't auto-focused. That's a dealbreaker for me.",{"value":122,"source":72,"evidence":123},"DuckDuckGo results are weaker than Google's for some queries.",[124,128],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"4261705","Rudism","I've switched full time to DDG for a couple months now, and have rarely ever used !g to Google results because I was unsatisfied with the DDG results. I'm curious what the…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"4261763","chaud","When I search for something on DDG, I generally find one or two good results somewhere in the first set and all the rest are spammy\u002Fjunk sites that repost content from other…",[133,141,148],{"value":134,"source":72,"evidence":135},"Auto-focus the search box on page load.",[136,137],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"4261519","K2h","I agree. If there is more than one field it can get annoying to have the wrong one automatically selected, but with only one field - for sure, save me the mouse click.",{"value":142,"source":72,"evidence":143},"Support the backslash bang syntax.",[144],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"4261162","avar","I wrote this a while ago (July last year) as http:\u002F\u002Fgoosegoosego.com whose source code is available at https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002F1113894 You missed a spot in your handling of bang…",{"value":149,"source":72,"evidence":150},"Add Google search suggestions for Firefox.",[151],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"4263567","roryokane","This looks interesting, but I find myself missing Google’s search suggestions. Does anyone know a way to enable them for this search engine? (I’m on Firefox.) I see somebody…",[156,163],{"value":157,"source":72,"evidence":158},"How to set it as default search in Firefox.",[159],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"4261014","polyfractal","Nifty idea. I'm having a hard time setting it as default search for Firefox though. I followed the instructions to \"Add a keyword for this search\"...but I'm not really sure how…",{"value":164,"source":72,"evidence":165},"Whether the site logs searches.",[166],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},[168,176,186,190],{"value":169,"source":72,"evidence":170},"Browser keyword search shortcuts.",[171,172],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"4261141","vegardx","Then use a browser that supports open search, type \"imdb \u003Ctab>\" in your address bar and whatever you want to search for, no need to use \"bang-notation\". I rarely find websites…",{"value":177,"source":72,"evidence":178},"Alfred custom searches.",[179,183],{"id":180,"by":181,"text":182},"4261424","danneu","This would be a weird place to stop for someone trying to minimize their time executing searches and clicking. Having to navigate to the browser to launch a search for MDN Arrays…",{"id":184,"by":11,"text":185},"4261620","The idea is to make it your browser's default search since lots of people (the majority?) search from the browser search bar or omnibar. Edit: you could also add this to Alfred.…",{"value":187,"source":72,"evidence":188},"GooseGooseGo.",[189],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"value":191,"source":72,"evidence":192},"Blekko slashtags.",[193],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"4263824","greglindahl","Tough one. blekko has a WoW slashtag, but it doesn't auto-boost for that query. You can invoke it by hand, though, how do you like this result?…",{"comments":198,"answered":40,"key":199},11,[200,201,204],{"id":53,"text":54},{"id":202,"text":203},"4261239","It appears that Chrome doesn't support open search and I'd prefer not to switch browsers just for this one small feature. Edit: I stand corrected.",{"id":205,"text":206},"4261628","Ah, great idea. 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