• MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It’s just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

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          4 months 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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            4 months 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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            4 months 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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              4 months ago

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