"Other search engines will let you perform a concentrated search using the “site:” tag (“site: the next web duckduckgo”, for instance), but it opens up in the search engine. Bangs take you directly to the site you want to find results on."
That's a feature of the "site:" tag, not a downside. Site-maintained search functionality traditionally sucks; I want Google's results.
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"Other search engines will let you perform a concentrated search using the “site:” tag (“site: the next web duckduckgo”, for instance), but it opens up in the search engine. Bangs take you directly to the site you want to find results on."
That's a feature of the "site:" tag, not a downside. Site-maintained search functionality traditionally sucks; I want Google's results.
I've actually found DuckDuckGo's search results to be on par with Google's for the most part.
Every now and then it falls short, but it seems to improve every day.
And, when all else fails, there's always the ol' !g bang to jump over to an encrypted Google search.