{"id":102,"date":"2018-01-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/?p=102"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:55:54","slug":"supercharge-your-web-browsers-built-in-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/2018\/01\/19\/supercharge-your-web-browsers-built-in-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercharge Your Web Browser’s Built-In Search"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re really going to love this one.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open your web browser’s preferences.<\/li>\n
  2. Change your default search engine to DuckDuckGo<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Enjoy incredibly versatile search right from your browser’s address\/search field by using DuckDuckGo’s bangs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What the heck is a DuckDuckGo bang<\/em>, you ask? It’s a bit of text you add to your search that makes magic happen. Let me explain!<\/p>\n

    If you’ve followed the steps above, and DuckDuckGo is now your default search engine, you can easily search the web for pants by typing the following into your address\/search bar:<\/p>\n

    pants<\/code><\/pre>\n
    That would take you to the normal DuckDuckGo search for pants<\/a>.<\/p>\n
    But what if you wanted to search Amazon for pants<\/em> instead?  Just type this:<\/p>\n
    pants !a<\/code><\/pre>\n
    That !a<\/code> at the end is a DuckDuckGo bang, and including it in your search will take you directly<\/strong> to a search for pants on Amazon’s site!<\/p>\n
    To be clear, this will not<\/em> show you results from Amazon on DuckDuckGo, or inside a DuckDuckGo wrapper, or any other nonsense.  No, this will take you directly to Amazon’s site and search for pants there, directly from your browser’s address\/search bar, all in a single step.<\/p>\n
    Cool, right?  There’s more!<\/p>\n
    Maybe now it’s time to check eBay for pants:<\/p>\n
    pants !e<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Want to learn more about pants in general on Wikipedia?<\/p>\n
    pants !w<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Are the DuckDuckGo search results not sufficient to quench your thirst for pants knowledge?  Try Google instead:<\/p>\n
    pants !g<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Or maybe you want to see some images of pants from Google Images?<\/p>\n
    pants !gi<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Wondering what people on Twitter are saying about pants?<\/p>\n
    pants !tw<\/code><\/pre>\n
    The list goes on.  There are currently almost 10,000 bangs to choose from, all easily searchable<\/a>, so finding and memorizing your favorites is a piece of cake.<\/p>\n
    And, as icing on said cake, DuckDuckGo is a great search engine that respects your privacy and doesn’t track you<\/a>.<\/p>\n
    Your web browser’s built in search just got better by an order of magnitude.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Take your web browser’s built-in search to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}