[gopher] DuckDuckGo

[Hugh Guiney]

Cool feature, but isn't this sort of counter-intuitive? Seeing as
exclamation points as prefixes are usually used for negation? (Well, in
programming at least.) Plus, there's bound to be conflicting abbreviations
down the road...

Not that it isn't useful. You can actually set up the same thing in Google
Chrome:
http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/how-to-add-search-shortcuts-to-google-chrome/.
I do mine the reverse way though, with a question mark suffix: [keyword][?],
taking a hint from HTTP GET queries (which most of these shortcuts resolve
to, anyway).

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Peter Tynan <happy at sdf.lonestar.org>wrote:

> https://duckduckgo.com/ (DDG) is a search engine, one of its feature
> is "bang syntax" which allows DDG users to leaver other search engines
> from DDG e.g. "!yt foo" will search YouTube, "!gi foo" will search
> Google images and "!dpkg foo" will search Debian packages.
>
> I recently noticed that the "!gopher" bang syntax directs searches to
> the Floodgap Veronica (via the Floodgap http proxy) and thought it may
> be of interest to subscribers this list.
>
> Peter
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