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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