<story><title> Blocked Sites is discontinued</title><url>http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=1210386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gee_totes</author><text>&lt;i&gt;/me straightens DuckDuckGo independent evangelist hat and nervously rings doorbell&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Judging from your comment, you sound like the perfect user for Duck Duck Go!&lt;p&gt;If you set DDG as the default browser for chrome/ff, you can search mdn with just &apos;!mdn foo&apos;. Also at your fingertips is searching !jquery (and hundreds of other search shortcuts)&lt;p&gt;DuckDuckGo is great and makes searching super productive!&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;/me smiles eagerly&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>monkeyfacebag</author><text>I guess I need to go back to manually appending &quot;mdn&quot; to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Actually, it turns out I&apos;ve been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I haven&apos;t seen w3schools in months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>Or you can just go to MDN once, right click on the search box, choose &quot;Add a Keyword (...)&quot; and then use &quot;mdn foo&quot; in the URL bar.&lt;p&gt;Bang syntax seems such a small feature to change search engines.</text></comment>
<story><title> Blocked Sites is discontinued</title><url>http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=1210386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gee_totes</author><text>&lt;i&gt;/me straightens DuckDuckGo independent evangelist hat and nervously rings doorbell&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Judging from your comment, you sound like the perfect user for Duck Duck Go!&lt;p&gt;If you set DDG as the default browser for chrome/ff, you can search mdn with just &apos;!mdn foo&apos;. Also at your fingertips is searching !jquery (and hundreds of other search shortcuts)&lt;p&gt;DuckDuckGo is great and makes searching super productive!&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;/me smiles eagerly&lt;/i&gt;</text></item><item><author>monkeyfacebag</author><text>I guess I need to go back to manually appending &quot;mdn&quot; to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Actually, it turns out I&apos;ve been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I haven&apos;t seen w3schools in months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esbwhat</author><text>Can I ask you why you see DDG as the perfect alternative to google? One would think that if you are concerned with the sort of things google is doing, you would bank on an open source search engine, so this sort of thing doesn&apos;t just repeat itself.</text></comment>