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sophie-glk / bang

A firefox addon which adds bangs (known from duckduckgo) to various search engines.
MIT License
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I'm feeling lucky support #16

Closed filyp closed 3 years ago

filyp commented 3 years ago

In DDG, you can use \ to go straight to the first search result, for example

\yt starless king

to open first search result on youtube of starless king

Or add ! at the end, for example

black hole !

It would be quite useful, especially the \

babastienne commented 3 years ago

I'm not a big fan of the idea to add a '!' character at the end of the search string. But i love the idea of implementing the \ feature.

To be honest I didn't even knew it existed, but I already love it.

But it seems kind of hard to implement ...

sophie-glk commented 3 years ago

Will have to look into it, but it doesnt sound that easy to implement tbh. The easiest but hacky way of doing this is would be to just let ddg itself handle the request in the background.

sophie-glk commented 3 years ago

I have looked into it a bit more, and it seems to be out of scope for this project. DDG basically just searchs through the bang website and delivers the first result back to you. Not really something that we can accomplish.

babastienne commented 3 years ago

Unfortunatelly, even if I really wanted to see this feature it doesn't really surprise me. It was looking hard to accomplish.

retdop commented 2 years ago

Sorry to resuscitate a closed issue, but I really like the ! feature in ddg. I find it super useful to get directly to an obvious result to a search query (especially for code documentation).

From what I understood of the repo, it should be easier to implement than the \ feature, as we could just redirect to ddg's request.

For instance, the query pandas to_dict ! would just be an alias for !ddg pandas to_dict !.

What do you think?

domportera commented 1 year ago

Sorry to resuscitate a closed issue, but I really like the ! feature in ddg. I find it super useful to get directly to an obvious result to a search query (especially for code documentation).

From what I understood of the repo, it should be easier to implement than the \ feature, as we could just redirect to ddg's request.

For instance, the query pandas to_dict ! would just be an alias for !ddg pandas to_dict !.

What do you think?

agreed, though i see that it would violate how this project works. I've noticed this extension is much faster than DDG because it bypasses DDG altogether, which is great, but this proposed solution (which I ultimately support and would like very much) violates that approach.