<story><title>DuckDuckGo&apos;s bang</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/bang</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zumzumzum</author><text>I am a long time DDG user, going on 4 years? I am just now starting to revert back to google more and more as I start to find their results lacking. The main problem I have with bangs is that my mental mode for searching is always going directly to the search string first. The friction of having to back out of that and insert a bang is too much. I would love to be able to add the bang at the end, as it is often then that I realize a particular search string would be better suited for google or some other service (but mostly google). I&amp;#x27;ll send them that suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0942v8653</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been adding the bang at the end of the string for years, and you can even add it in the middle:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    hacker news !g
    hacker news!g
    hacker !g news
    hacker!g news
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
all work.</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo&apos;s bang</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/bang</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zumzumzum</author><text>I am a long time DDG user, going on 4 years? I am just now starting to revert back to google more and more as I start to find their results lacking. The main problem I have with bangs is that my mental mode for searching is always going directly to the search string first. The friction of having to back out of that and insert a bang is too much. I would love to be able to add the bang at the end, as it is often then that I realize a particular search string would be better suited for google or some other service (but mostly google). I&amp;#x27;ll send them that suggestion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magissima</author><text>Ecosia[0] does this by using a hash sign at the end of the string instead, like &amp;quot;query #g&amp;quot; to google &amp;quot;query&amp;quot;. I prefer that to DDG&amp;#x27;s bangs, but ecosia only has a couple of available options[1].&lt;p&gt;e: Apparently DDG can do this after all, so ecosia is actually less flexible since the search tag has to come at the end!&lt;p&gt;[0] ecosia.org&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ecosia.zendesk.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;201657321-What-are-search-tags-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ecosia.zendesk.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;201657321-What-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>