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[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I'm generally pretty happy with the results in Qwant.

The main thing I miss at this point is really support for !bangs. I use them all the time in DuckDuckGo, to search directly in !scholar or !wiki. Especially in Qwant there are some features missing, so if I for example want to be lazy and use the search bar as a calculator it would be nice to be able to search for !ddg 2+2.

But that's a minor criticism. For the most part it's a great tool, and I look forward to where they go with their own indexes.

Edit: Also, what's up with this graphic suggesting search engines (if you can call them that) as alternatives to Google Chrome.

[โ€“] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At least desktop Firefox has something similar. Add a bookmark for e.g. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s" with the keyword "wiki", then when you type "wiki qwant" into the address bar you'll get the Wikipedia page.

I guess it's easier if you don't have to bookmark each search first, but at least for sites you search often I don't see the need for search engine provided bangs.

edit: As mentioned in another comment, there's a newer way where you just right-click a search box and go to "add keyword".

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I knew about this in theory, but I used DuckDuckGo for a long time and got too spoiled to a point where it didn't occur to me to just set it up myself.

Thank you for connecting the dots for me, I'll set ut up right away.

[โ€“] Kyouki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Like the other guys, thank you for this revelation!

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