I'm one of the lucky few discovering bangs in noai.duckduckgo.com/ today.
If you do "!gwiki forth", you get popped straight into the gentoo wiki page on forth. "!iep quine", and you're in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy page on Willard Van Orman himself.
If noai.duckduckgo.com is your default search engine in your gogo-address bar, this means to open a new tab and search directly on the page of the site that you want, cutting out all noise inbetween, you go
C-t "!site search" <RET>
(or C-l (i.e., that's L) to use current tab's URL bar)
where "site" is the shortcut of the site you want to search, and you're gone! Cool. Here's some to get started:
!archive --> Internet Archive
!ia --> WayBack Machine
!iep --> Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
!w --> Wikipedia
!gh --> Github (RIP)
!glab --> Gitlab
!ored --> old reddit
!had --> Hackaday
!arch --> Arch Linux Wiki
!gwiki --> Gentoo Wiki
!die --> linux.die.net man pages
!fman --> FreeBSD man pages
etc etc. See duckduckgo.com/bang_lite.html for a list of all bangs. If you type "!" inside the actual page (like noai.duckduckgo.com/) and not your URL bar, you can search there. But you might not get the shortest one without visiting the page of all bangs, and generally you've to check that they actually work, some don't (the above list all does, I think).
They didn't have Codeberg so I made a proposal to add it, with "cbg" as the term. The process was smooth, and you can make your own submissions for new bangs, or update existing bangs, here duckduckgo.com/newbang
I will update this with the results of the submission for Codeberg to be added :)
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Iron Bug
in reply to Jamie Cullen • • •but for some weird reason for so many years on the net I haven't ever heard about the Internet Encyclopedia of Philisophy. I should definitely check it out. so thanks for the hint.
Jamie Cullen
in reply to Iron Bug • • •@iron_bug
If you add this
noai.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%s
as a search engine in your Firefox settings (guessing you're on FF or a derivative...), and then make it the default search engine in the address bar, does that work if you search from theh address bar?
It seems to work fine on my Firefox. I'm getting no slop, and the no-JS results page.
But it's definitely a bit puzzling, because if I open up either of these pages
noai.duckduckgo.com/html?q=
noai.duckduckgo.com/html
I get a search bar, but when I search, I get a page that says "forbidden". And in the case of the first page, the URL looks identical to the one which is working when I search from the URL bar...
I've tested with Noscript on and off, with the same result.
DuckDuckGo
noai.duckduckgo.comIron Bug
in reply to Jamie Cullen • • •this problem with direct address needs some little research, I think. I don't know how the internals of FF search are designed but there should be no problems with direct reference to the address, I guess. I checked in Falkon and the address with noai.duckduckgo.com/html?q= works fine to me.
Jamie Cullen
in reply to Iron Bug • • •@iron_bug Ah, very nice it worked in Falkon then.
I had a read about FF 57 -- makes sense to leave at that point. I'm on FF out of inertia, and am eager to put the effort in to changing (cleaning up bookmarks, mainly). The addition of PI (Pretend Intelligence) is only the latest instance in the ongoing enshittification.
I've never used Palemoon, but I recall a brief period on Falkon, and liking it a lot, but changing OS or some such. Will investigate both, thanks for sharing.
Iron Bug
in reply to Jamie Cullen • • •and yes, I already think that I need to start to write either my own browser from the scratch or join some development of things like Netsurf or something, the situation with browsers and the Internet is catastrophic. for both end users and programmers.
Iron Bug
in reply to Jamie Cullen • • •