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Rec'd on πŸ€– Search alternatives to google?
duckduckgo with bangs
the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has the idea of "Bangs". throwing !g at the end of a search fires it over to google, !w to wikipedia, !r to reddit etc. there are thousands of these, and it lets you get very intentional about where you want to search for information; not just relying on one tool for every job. outside of the bangs feature, well, ddg is... fine. it's not immune to spam, but at least it hasn't implemented an AI that lies to you. yet.
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@colm
Mar 24, 2025
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@sailor
didn't know that about bangs but that's very helpful! the issue i was seeing when i tried ddg was that it was showing kinda limited results but the bangs would probably help with that. and ofc i'd rather take the spotty results than ai and tracking any day
Mar 24, 2025

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