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Re: [gopher] DuckDuckGo

Cool feature, but isn't this sort of counter-intuitive? Seeing as exclamation points as prefixes are usually used for negation? (Well, in programming at least.) Plus, there's bound to be conflicting abbreviations down the road...

Not that it isn't useful. You can actually set up the same thing in Google Chrome: http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/how-to-add-search-shortcuts-to-google-chrome/. I do mine the reverse way though, with a question mark suffix: [keyword][?], taking a hint from HTTP GET queries (which most of these shortcuts resolve to, anyway).

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Peter Tynan <happy@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
https://duckduckgo.com/ (DDG) is a search engine, one of its feature
is "bang syntax" which allows DDG users to leaver other search engines
from DDG e.g. "!yt foo" will search YouTube, "!gi foo" will search
Google images and "!dpkg foo" will search Debian packages.

I recently noticed that the "!gopher" bang syntax directs searches to
the Floodgap Veronica (via the Floodgap http proxy) and thought it may
be of interest to subscribers this list.

Peter

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