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  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

    !reddit search term
    

    It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing’s results. It’s that simple.

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        3 months ago

        Even better. Thanks, been a while since I’ve looked up specific ddg bangs.

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      3 months ago

      This has historically worked because Bing (from which DDG draws results) previously indexed Reddit. What indications do we have that it will work after this change? As I read the articles, I thought it wouldn’t work going forward.

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        3 months ago

        Bangs don’t actually search w/ Duckduckgo, they just redirect your search to whatever search provided is configured for that bang. In this case, it just goes to reddit.com and uses its search function. They’re really handy when you definitely want results from a given service and don’t want to type out “site:service.com” or whatever.

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            It gets crazy when you use a redirection extension like libredirect. If you tell libredirect to redirect to a redlib instance, the !r or !reddit bang will try to send your query directly to reddit, and then instead you’re presented with the search results on a no JavaScript frontend. This is what I do, a lot less clutter than reddit’s site.