{"id":2679,"date":"2014-11-16T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2014-11-16T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T10:50:52","slug":"search-like-a-pro-with-duckduckgo-bang-bangs-filter-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/search-like-a-pro-with-duckduckgo-bang-bangs-filter-bubble","title":{"rendered":"Search like a pro with DuckDuckGo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iu\"<\/a>I’ve been using DuckDuckGo<\/a> as my default search engine for a few months now, and I’m still not thinking about going back to Google. Yes, there are other options for search, just as in the nineties! Apple recently even added DuckDuckGo as a standard search option in Safari on Yosemite and iOS 8, behind Google, Bing and Yahoo!.<\/p>\n

My problem with Google Search is that I don’t always want search results that are tailored to me. When I want to learn more about a certain political event, I don’t want to see only the FoxNews reports as search results; I want the best results, including other\u00a0opinions. This phenomenon is called the Filter Bubble <\/strong>and is explained in this ‘guide’<\/a>. DuckDuckGo doesn’t track its users and thus doesn’t collect personal data, so the results are not user specific.<\/p>\n

\"filterbubble\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But, over time I got an even bigger fan of another DuckDuckGo feature: The !bangs<\/strong>. With these !bang commands you can directly search on thousands of websites, without having to visit those sites first. When I enter !a Xcelsius<\/strong> in my Safari search bar, I’m directed to the Amazon.com search results for Xcelsius. !yt<\/strong> takes me to YouTube, !imdb<\/strong> to IMDB.com, !bol<\/strong> to BOL.com and !w<\/strong> to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

If I can’t find anything on DuckDuckGo I just use the !g<\/strong> bang to quickly search it on Google. If I need to translate something I use !gtnl<\/strong> or !tr<\/strong>. Here<\/a> you can find the\u00a0whole list of !bangs.\u00a0I just submitted a new !bang for SCN myself, since the old !sdn doesn’t work anymore.<\/p>\n

Using the !bangs\u00a0saves me a lot of time. But there is more. You can use the keyboard<\/strong> to quickly navigate\u00a0through the search results. Just use\u00a0\u2193<\/strong> to go to the next result. Hitting Enter<\/strong> opens the result. CMD-Enter<\/strong> opens the search result on another tab in the background. \/<\/strong> takes you back to the search box.<\/p>\n

Hitting d<\/strong> after selecting a search result starts a new search on the domain of the selected search result. This is very useful when you search for a SAP related issue, and you want to see some more results from http:\/\/scn.sap.com\/. All keyboard shortcuts are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So try it at DuckDuckGo.com<\/a>\u00a0or take the tour<\/a>! It’s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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