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Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

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305 points evolve2k | 4 comments | 14 Jun 13 01:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.819s | source
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fungi ◴[14 Jun 13 02:24 UTC] No.5877938[source]▶
i always make ddg my default... but then ill just use google for a sec and forget to change my search back to ddg and then without noticing ill be using google for the next week.

.... so my project for the weekend is to make a firefox extension that resets your search default every X hours/days.

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1. maxerickson ◴[14 Jun 13 02:27 UTC] No.5877944[source]▶
Have you seen the ! queries on DuckDuckGo? If you add !g to a search, it redirects you to Google. !i goes to Google Image search. I guess there are others.
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2. jaryd ◴[14 Jun 13 02:57 UTC] No.5878025[source]▶
There are quite a few! And the list is growing... :)

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

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3. stevewillows ◴[14 Jun 13 03:16 UTC] No.5878088[source]▶
Like a previous commenter noted, the instant math portion of google is a good feature. Any way to do this with DDG?
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4. chrismorgan ◴[14 Jun 13 07:39 UTC] No.5878748{3}[source]▶
Simple queries are done in just the same way: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=42*PI

More complex queries are typically done with Wolfram|Alpha. This goes a long way: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=graph+y+%3D+x%2Bcos^2%28sqrt%2842*...