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Tell HN: I haven’t been to a search engine website in almost a year

9 pointsmavsman7 comments
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I used to use DuckDuckGo.com but then switched exclusively to the CLI https://github.com/jarun/ddgr. I've been happier and more productive since.

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Seems like you're accessing the website via a CLI. So you have probably been to a search engine website today.

Weird flex, but ok?

You still "went to" a search engine within the last year, just using a non-visual document rendering user agent. DDG logs (if there are any) would still show you were there, just not with a typical browser.

It's semantic nitpicking, but I support the OP's characterisation. If they're not using a browser to visit a web page, I wouldn't say they "went to" the page.

Interesting. Would you happen to know if there is a version for Google? I guess you could just use !g

There was a version for Google by the same developer, but it's no longer being updated.

https://github.com/jarun/googler

Thanks!

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