@wooby

So what's the deal? If you enter a search query like !w Dogs, it'll search Wikipedia for 'dogs' and send you directly to the first result. !w in this case is short for 'Wikipedia', but there's thousands of user-submitted ones for all kinds of different sites.

Off the top of my head:

!tf2 - The TF2 wiki
!i - DuckDuckGo image search
!mcwiki - The Minecraft wiki (fuck fandom)
!tf2 - The TF2 wiki

The most use I get out of it is as a super simple integration in my discord bot via their api. I can use them directly in discord, so if I wanna pull up a wiki article or something without going to an external browser I can just do it in one message. It's neat! I just submitted a bang for cohost so, hopefully that goes through soon enough.

#rambles #DuckDuckGo #search engines #bangs #duckduckgo bangs

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Epiglottal Axolotl @epiglottal-axolotl7/24/2023, 1:41 AM

Other useful ones include:
!mtg - Scryfall, the Magic: The Gathering search engine
!tf2 - The TF2 wiki
!so - StackOverflow
!tf2 - The TF2 wiki

Sciman101 @Sciman1017/24/2023, 2:55 AM

Goddamnit I thought I changed those tf2 wiki ones.... But good to know for stack overflow!

Puddle 🫠@Pudl7/24/2023, 4:14 PM

• !gi !bi, google and bing images
• !a amazon search
• !qr turns whatever you put after this into a scannable QR code, I use this to send pages to my phone
• !iqdb reverse image search for 2d images
• !imdb searches movie and actor deets

Sciman101 @Sciman1017/24/2023, 5:25 PM

Oh, I didn't know about qr! That's super useful

Honeysizzle [parallel arc]@Honeysizzle7/24/2023, 8:27 PM

i've used bangs for so long i don't think i can switch to another search engine ever again. this feature absolutely deserves more attention than it gets
[also typing a bang with no search terms after it usually takes you to the front page of the site, so for example !w by itself takes you to the wikipedia main page]

Sciman101 @Sciman1017/24/2023, 8:43 PM

I also found out through my discord bot that using a bang with just a space as the 'website' just searches duckduckgo and takes you right to the first search result. e.g. ! dogs. Really useful!

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