• new_guy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I use DDG just because they have !bangs and it saves me so much time.

    !yt <keyword> searches YouTube !imdb <keyword> searches IMDb

    And so on.

    • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      I just have that in my browser. If I type y search term I get a YouTube Search page for “search term”.

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        19 hours ago

        The downside is that you MUST type "y " first in that case, whereas the bangs can be placed anywhere, and don’t even require a preceeding space when putting it last

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      2 days ago

      If bangs are used for positive searching how do I search for things without the name. I thought !youtube filters out YouTube.

    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      you can do this with most other search engines i think by prefixing your search with the domain name or name of the website