Just a friendly reminder that DuckDuckGo supports a lot of query modifiers they call “bangs.” If your default browser search is DDG and you prefix with !g you’ll get a Google search. Prefix with with !wa to perform a WolframAlpha search.
That’s pretty commonly known. But if you think this sounds interesting, you ain’t seen nothin' yet. Check out their full list of modifiers.
I use DEVONthink Office Pro to store my documents. I’ve used it for the past 7 years. I don’t write much about it because I still feel like a novice. It’s like owning Deep Blue but for organizing files.
DEVONtech has been producing some informative instructional videos that are worth checking out.
I made a big deal out of switching to DuckDuckGo for the site search here at Macdrifter. I was very happy with the results on the WordPress version of the site. However, when I switched to Pelican, DDG presented both the old cached links and the new links. I was generating a new site map a couple times a day, but, unlike Google, DDG can not be pinged with the new site map.
Search on the web is more than just knowing the right words to search. It’s knowing how to use the engine behind the text box. Here are a few quick tips for getting better results, many of which are not possible with Google.
DuckDuckGo As any respectable search engine should, DuckDuckGo (DDG from here on) provides site specific search. Adding the “s:d” flag to the query provides search results ordered by date.
There’s a little bit of grumbling about the changes Google has made to search results. Several prominent bloggers have declared that they are switching to Bing. I’d like to suggest a better alternative. DuckDuckGo[1] is a great search engine. They respect their users and provide pretty good results. Importantly, they are generally different results from Google.
I've written about DuckDuckGo before. It's still good.
By way of The Loop
I know.
Siri is now fully ingrained in my workflow. I use it at home and on the street constantly. It greatly reduces the time to conceive an idea, research it and then get it written down.
Something that I am noticing though is that I no longer need to think about where or how to search. I don’t care. I just want the information and an assurance that the source is reasonably authoritative.
Google search has been experiencing a slow slide into the realm of unmoderated Wordpress comments. I'm sure Google finds a lot of relavent search results but in general the first 2-3 pages of results is garbage filled with link farm results and Adwords hits.
I've recently been on a quest to replace Google search with something that actually works. I was getting pretty frustrated until I stumbled across duckduckgo.com. So far the only bad aspect of the service is the name.
