What search engine(s) besides DuckDuck have !bangs?
from zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 22 Mar 2025 03:39
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from zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 22 Mar 2025 03:39
https://lemmy.ml/post/27517274
SearXNG does, I think…any others? Looking around for other engines that aren’t US-based, though I guess DDG is still considered acceptable for LibreWolf’s default engine. Bangs are incredibly useful!
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I started to try and use kagi a few weeks ago. It has bangs.
Is that one a paid service? Have heard good things about it but never tried.
it’s paid, but you get 100 free searches if you wanna check it out
Is it 100 a month? I thought it was 100 total, no specified time frame. It’s intended as a trial period not a free tier.
it’s 100 a month (edit: wrong ðŸ˜)
It says here it’s 100 total: help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/plan-types.htm
youre right I think it reset for me when I cancelled my sub
Yes it’s paid, but the quality is worlds above Bing, DDG, or Google. The best description I can make is that it’s what Google Search was about 15 years ago, back when there were no AI results, no ads, no artificially promoted results, and you could vote on results and block domains from appearing in your searches. Back when Google Search was actually good.
So it doesn’t do anything new or groundbreaking, it’s just what a search engine is supposed to be, in a time when every other option has abandoned that goal in the endless search for more revenue.
I can find valid results with Kagi 90% of the time compared to about 40% with Google. There are some things I was been looking for using Google for several years without success that turn up as the top result on Kagi.
It just works.
Here’s a 30day free trial with their professional tier
kagi.com/p/EVOLVE
I’ve seen so many people talking about it that I tried the free trial. It has been giving good enough results. My reference is usually duck dck go since that’s what I’ve used for years, and I only fall back to google when really need to expand my search, but google has been so useless about almost everything that anything else is a win.
I’m not sure if I’ll pay or keep using or not, but for now I activated it as the default on my browsers and devices to get a feeling.
I like the idea of a proper business where the business model is clear and where they are making their money. They even have changelogs with their updates and it seems they keep improving things focused on the user, which is nice.
Subscription search seems at odds with privacy.
They came out with this feature recently that makes any sort of tracking technically impossible:
blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
Unlike free search where there’s definitely no incentive to sell your data to keep the lights on, right?
Kagi is giving out money to Yandex, which is Russian.
Kagi (paid) advertises a huge list of bangs with the option to customise them yourself.
For those who maybe breeze past it in the article linked, here’s an unofficial tool for searching all of the zillions of Kagi bangs: kbe.smaertness.net
They have all the usual,
!gfor Google,!giGoogle Images,!bBing,!ddg,!brave, etc, plus like a billion niche ones.I’m currently using Startpage, which is dutch
I also use them, and have liked the results.
Probably because they pull from Google
Searxng uses bangs but you have to double them up (i.e. !!aur btop or !!ddg search).
I love how your first example was AUR.
I use arch BTW.
Brave Search has !bangs and an independant search index. Kagi relies heavily on it.
Can I use Brave search as default in firefox?
You can manually setup any site to be your default search in Firefox.
Yeah, I figured it out after I posted. I’ll give this a try for a while
Andisearch admitts, among other commands, also !bangs
andisearch.com/help/
Andi is 100% free and anonymous, no logs, no ads, no tracking, random proxie, sandboxed results.
I just add the search to firefox and you can get the same functionality without needing to use another site to get to the one you want to search on.