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After seeing similar threads on HN, I’ve also started a similar journey. I managed to migrate to Firefox with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. But I’ve also added a shortcut for Google search: if I feel like I am missing something I open a new tab and type “go [keywords]”.

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You know you can prefix your ddg search with !g to use Google?

Useful for technical searches, where ddg is sadly, not good enough.

Didn’t know that. Thank you!

You can actually use !g anywhere in the search strings. It's useful when you finish typing your query, you can change your search engine at the last second.

DDG already supports Google (and some others) by typing !g [keywords]

This never made sense to me, if you're concerned about privacy, why send your search queries to an intermediary when the browser is perfectly capable of handling that for you.

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