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Has Qwant improved recently? (i.postimg.cc)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm generally pretty happy with the results in Qwant.

The main thing I miss at this point is really support for !bangs. I use them all the time in DuckDuckGo, to search directly in !scholar or !wiki. Especially in Qwant there are some features missing, so if I for example want to be lazy and use the search bar as a calculator it would be nice to be able to search for !ddg 2+2.

But that's a minor criticism. For the most part it's a great tool, and I look forward to where they go with their own indexes.

Edit: Also, what's up with this graphic suggesting search engines (if you can call them that) as alternatives to Google Chrome.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In Firefox (other browsers probably as well) you can add custom keywords for searches. For example visit Wikipedia, right click the search field and pick "add keyword" from the menu. As keyword enter "!wiki" or whatever you want and from now on you can just type "!wiki whatever" in the URL bar, no need to take the detour to duckduckgo or some other search engine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks!! I should have done that ages ago!

[โ€“] klu9 2 points 1 week ago

Me too! Just added:

  • !w for Wikipedia
  • !wt for Wiktionary
  • !wm for Wikimedia Commons
  • !mar for Marginalia-Search
  • !mo for Mojeek

Will probably think of a few more over the next few weeks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

@snuggledick
I've shortened it to "w" wikipedia, "g" Google, "d" duckduck, "a" amazon. Also possible with "1","2",...

Typing " w Fediverse" will directly open wikipedia with the article for "Fediverse".

Even when you have abandoned the pages above it will work with your free pages too.

@cabbage

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least desktop Firefox has something similar. Add a bookmark for e.g. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s" with the keyword "wiki", then when you type "wiki qwant" into the address bar you'll get the Wikipedia page.

I guess it's easier if you don't have to bookmark each search first, but at least for sites you search often I don't see the need for search engine provided bangs.

edit: As mentioned in another comment, there's a newer way where you just right-click a search box and go to "add keyword".

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I knew about this in theory, but I used DuckDuckGo for a long time and got too spoiled to a point where it didn't occur to me to just set it up myself.

Thank you for connecting the dots for me, I'll set ut up right away.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Like the other guys, thank you for this revelation!