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My favorite part of DDG is the Bangs that allow me to quickly drop out of DDG when DDG doesn't solve my immediate need. At minimum I can start there, make an attempt then quickly append !g and drop into Google directly. I assume/hope they are using that information to know which searches weren't good enough to improve for the future because it's super useful live feedback.

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I didn't know such a feature existed, thanks.

Check out https://duckduckgo.com/bangs you can dump into pretty much any site, Wikipedia, YouTube, Spotify, Google Translate from the DDG search bar if you have a few favorite bangs memorized. You can put the !<bang> anywhere in the query for it to be picked up as well.

Small correction: you can put it almost anywhere. If you have a quoted search, you need a space between the bang syntax and the quotes, even if the bang syntax comes after.

For example, if you search for ["foobar"!g] (without brackets), you will not be redirected to Google, but you would be if you did ["foobar" !g].

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