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Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

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305 points evolve2k | 2 comments | 14 Jun 13 01:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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proex ◴[14 Jun 13 02:34 UTC] No.5877967[source]▶
DDG is a nice search engine for simple research, but I don't use it as much for its search purpose as for its !bang utility.

Being able to search on almost any website by adding a simple keyword is a real plus and I will go even further and say that sometimes it accelerates the search process (say you know you want to search on wikipedia for instance).

However, I have to admit that most of the times I end up searching on google :)

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1. CoryG89 ◴[14 Jun 13 05:18 UTC] No.5878414[source]▶
In regards to searching a particular site, is this the same thing as using the tag site:wikipedia.org on Google?
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2. proex ◴[14 Jun 13 12:18 UTC] No.5879462[source]▶
It's better, in my opinion, as it loads the website specified and use the website's search tool directly.

Give it a try, go on DDG and type !w to search on wikipedia.