Jason Lefkowitz1d ago

DuckDuckGo has a handy feature called "bangs," where you can turn anything you type into your browser's address bar into a search of a specific site just by tacking on a special code associated with that site starting with an exclamation mark. This saves you a lot of clicking around.

You just have to be careful to use the right bang code. !mw, for instance, will pipe your search through the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which is useful all the time. But if your finger slips and you type !me, your search will be piped through the Mass Effect fan wiki

Show threadChris Combs (he/him)
@jalefkowit Custom search engines are also a thing in *fox (and just as prone to the same braino/typo failure mode ;_;)
Apr 9 at 5:58pmWeb
Show threadJessamyn1d ago
@combs @jalefkowit Yep I use this in Firefox so I can just type, for example 'wk Fraser Metzger' and it will look up those words on Wikipedia. I can get over my skis though, I had one search set up so typing 'tom $KEYWORD' would search my dad's Flickr photo tags for a thing. But! it also meant I couldn't search for anyone named Tom from the address bar.