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DuckDuckGo !Bang

Glenn Carremans on May 01, 2019

First I would like to say that my previous blog post got way more attention than I was expecting, thanks every one for commenting and sharing! Sin...
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Clara

Wow,that is such a helpful tip!
I am using DuckDuckGo for some months now and was seriously considering switching back to google because the results are just not as good - especially in dev relaeted searches, as you mentioned.
Now I can give it another try. Thank you!

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Glenn Carremans

I love to hear that! Being able to help you really makes me happy.
I accidentally came across DDG !bang and thought this was useful to share, I think DDG needs to spread this out more.

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Clara

I absolutely agree with you!

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Gopi Ravi

Doesn't DDG use anonymized Google search? Remember the founder saying so in quora

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Glenn Carremans

It might have been so in the past but not anymore from what I can tell here: help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-hel...

Also described here in an old forum post it seems that DDG gets it sources from different sites (Bing/Yahoo): duck.co/forum/thread/2955/how-to-s...