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Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

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305 points evolve2k | 9 comments | 14 Jun 13 01:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.953s | source | bottom
1. depsypher ◴[14 Jun 13 02:32 UTC] No.5877961[source]▶
The only thing stopping me from making this switch is that doing arithmetic in the url bar stops working... I use that quite a bit. Is this some deep integration with chrome or can it be made to work with ddg as well?
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2. iAinsley ◴[14 Jun 13 02:40 UTC] No.5877980[source]▶
Use AlfredApp for arithmetic ;)
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3. gee_totes ◴[14 Jun 13 02:44 UTC] No.5877990[source]▶
or the command line utility bc
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4. alex_doom ◴[14 Jun 13 02:57 UTC] No.5878028[source]▶
Did google do the math without hitting send? This works for me

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5*5

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5. Hovertruck ◴[14 Jun 13 03:06 UTC] No.5878055[source]▶
Yes: http://i.imgur.com/kfOzmUD.png
6. depsypher ◴[14 Jun 13 03:12 UTC] No.5878073[source]▶
I'd rather not have to hit send, and that only works when google search is enabled unfortunately :(
7. lloeki ◴[14 Jun 13 07:08 UTC] No.5878671[source]▶
The fact that Spotlight does arithmetic seems like it's regularly overlooked.
8. lloeki ◴[14 Jun 13 07:12 UTC] No.5878681{3}[source]▶
If you use bash, you can also use $(( 3 + 2 )). More often than not, if it gets cumbersome to fit it into Spotlight, I'm going to fire up a Python console.
9. drummer32 ◴[14 Jun 13 21:42 UTC] No.5882689[source]▶
This work only if you have search autosuggest on, which basically send everything you type in the address bar (includeing urls) to google.