• vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Duckduckgo also has bangs, which I consider an essential feature.

    Although I use SearXNG instead, since their equivalent is a lot more customisable (although less bangs out of the box).

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      21 hours ago

      Yep. I was using ddg but just spun up 2 sear instances for myself. (One on vpn one off)

      What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

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        9 hours ago

        What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

        Nothing hugely advanced. I added the NixOS wiki to !software_wikis and I also redirect the old wiki to the new wiki (since the former blocks VPNs). I also use the redirect functionality to redirect twitter/reddit etc links to FOSS frontends.

        I’ve also added a bunch of stackexchange sites with their own keywords.

        I’ll add you can also use duckduckgo bangs by using !! e.g. !!protondb.

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      21 hours ago

      FWIW you can kinda replicate bangs using Firefox using bookmark “keywords” (I think that’s what they’re called). They basically allow you to create a bang for any site using any trigger characters.

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah, I use those constantly. For web searching, Wikipedia, work ticket lookups, etc.