• atomic1fire
    +2

    As I mentioned on a similar reddit thread, the reason you would use this is because not every browser shares the same search settings.

    I can use duck duck go bangs and I know it will be fairly consistent no matter what browser or who's device I'm using. Also some of the bangs are far shorter then using the equivalent chrome search plugin.

    I could type yahoo in google chrome, or I save ddg.gg as a search engine and just type "!y thing I'm searching for"

    Firefox even has Duck Duck Go built in.

    !g will still work, !w will still work, etc.

    Any bang on https://ddg.gg/bang should work just fine regardless of what device or browser I'm using.

    • theaceoface
      +1

      1) I can see how this would be useful if you switch browsers a lot. 2) I can see how "y! <query>" is considerably shorter than typing "yahoo.com <tab> <query>".

      I tend to use chrome most of the time and the extra typing doesn't really bother me. Especially since I really don't get much use out of this feature in chrome. I honestly use google 95%+ of the time. But I can see how your use case can differ.

      I just feel that people sell this as a revolutionary killer feature when it really seems like a minor refinement of something people could do already.