• TenorTheHusky@kbin.social
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    DuckDuckGo can search using almost any search engine anonymously. Want to search Bing? !b query. Google? !g query. Scratch this, I remembered wrong what those do.
    I do believe there’s a setting to aggregate the top results from several different engines as the default search algorithm.

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      1 year ago

      !g and !b doesn’t anonymously do anything. It literally just opens up Google’s and Bing’s website with your query.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, you’re right, my bad. I could have sworn I remembered a search syntax on ddg for searching different sites with an anonymous query - apparently ! operators are not it

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      DuckDuckGo has a problem with booleans. I had to give up the Duck because of this. I’m using Mojeek, MetaGer and SearXNG these days.