Yang!

Yet Another Bangs anywhere extension

1. What is a Bang?

Citing DuckDuckGo, who first introduced them back in 2008:

Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for !w filter bubble will take you directly to Wikipedia.

2. How does the extension work?

Simply install the extension and use any of the supported Kagi Bangs.

Bangs can be used at the beginning or at the end of the query, e.g.:

!gm here to closest restaurant

is equivalent to

here to closest restaurant !gm

Bangs can also be triggered without any query, serving as a bookmark shortcut:

!bbc

3. Features

Done?	Feature	Description
✅	Kagi Bangs	More than 13,500 default bangs included.
✅	Custom Bangs	You can create your own bangs or override defaults.
✅	Custom Bang Symbol	Define your own custom symbol(s) to trigger the bangs.
✅	Mobile Support	Yang! is also available on Firefox Android.
✅	Fast Redirections	Bangs are resolved locally, without Kagi as intermediary¹.
✅	Address Bar Trigger	You can use bangs directly in the URL bar.
✅	Search Engine Trigger	Bangs also work from the search bar of your favorite search engine.
✅	Backup and Restore	Never lose your bangs.
🔜	Chromium Support	However, consider giving Firefox a try ;)
🔜	Custom Search Engines	Soon you will be able to add your own custom search engines.

_{¹ This greatly reduces the redirection times, as shown by
DuckDuckGo !Bangs but
Faster.}

4. Supported Engines

Yang! will be triggered directly from your address bar and the following sites:

Name	URL
Google	https://www.google.com/
Bing	https://www.bing.com/
Yahoo	https://www.yahoo.com/
Ecosia	https://www.ecosia.org/
DuckDuckGo	https://duckduckgo.com/
Brave Search	https://search.brave.com/
Startpage	https://www.startpage.com/
Swisscows	https://swisscows.com/
SearX(NG)	https://searx.space/
Mojeek	https://www.mojeek.com/
Qwant	https://www.qwant.com/
Kagi	https://kagi.com/
You.com	https://you.com/
Perplexity AI	https://www.perplexity.ai/
Naver	https://www.naver.com/
Baidu	https://www.baidu.com/
Yandex	https://yandex.com/
AOL	https://www.aol.com/
Murena	https://spot.ecloud.global/ https://spot.murena.io/
MetaGer	https://metager.de/
Dogpile	https://www.dogpile.com/
Ask.com	https://www.ask.com/
Seznam.cz	https://search.seznam.cz/
Karma Search	https://karmasearch.org/
Mullvad Leta	https://leta.mullvad.net/

Is your favorite search engine not on the list? Open an issue and we'll add it!

5. FAQs

Do bangs sync across devices?

Yes... and no. Bangs will sync across all the Firefox desktop browsers in which you are logged in with your Firefox account. However, the sync between desktop and mobile is currently unsupported. As a workaround, you can create a backup on desktop and restore it on Android (or vice versa).

Why does Yang! need permissions on a 300+ sites?

Instead of requesting data access on all sites, we granularly specify the search-engine sites that Yang! supports (which yeah, they're quite a few). You can find which sites we request permissions for in the manifest.json.

6. Contributing

Contributions are always welcome! However, before getting started, please carefully read the contribution guidelines.

7. Related Extensions

If you don't like Yang!, there are many other options, but these were the most inspiring in the early development of Yang!:

_{Yang! logo is a modification of the original DuckDuckGo logo. Its use is
solely transformative, i.e., intended with a further purpose or different
character, and does not substitute under any circumstance for the original use
of the work.}

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