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Seems quite fast, good UX overall. I like that it gives me information like "all results from Brave" so that if they do fall back I know about it.

DDG has a 'bang syntax' where I can do things like '!rust' to start searching the rust docs from my url - I like that a lot, I wonder if there's anything similar here or if I could work around that somehow.

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Update: We do support !rust as well (and all of DDG's other bangs).

Brave Search supports many shebangs, but I don't believe we've added support for `!rust` yet (we do have `!mdn` and `!so` though). I'll submit a request to add a `!rust` option too!

"Shebangs" have been defined as '#!' for decades, I'd suggest they not be redefined.

Shebang specifically refers to using an exclamation point to define where data should be directed. Same as it is in Bash scripts, just a different context and slightly different syntax.

The "she" is specifically a phonetic clipping of the "#", otherwise it's just a bang - but oh well, even jargon doesn't mean shit anymore.

DDG generally calls them "bangs": https://duckduckgo.com/bang

> In computing, a shebang is the character sequence consisting of the characters number sign and exclamation mark (#!) at the beginning of a script.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)

The word "shebang" has different uses outside of computing, but I can't find any use of the word that refers to a ! without a #

Note the (Unix) part of the Wikipedia URL. This is an entirely different context.

So in which context does "shebang" refer to a ! without a # ? I can't find any definition like that online.

Here I had assumed it was a Ricky Martin reference.

Very cool - good to know.

> Update: We do support !rust as well (and all of DDG's other bangs).

damn, alright, you got me. I'll try it out as default for a while

You don't seem to support the !ddg, and !duckduckgo bangs. See https://search.brave.com/search?q=!ddg+test nor do you support bangs in the middle of queries such as https://search.brave.com/search?q=example+!rust+example

They already do, at least partially. Adding !g to the end of a search redirects to google.

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