What search engine(s) besides DuckDuck have !bangs?
SearXNG does, I think...any others? Looking around for other engines that aren't US-based, though I guess DDG is still considered acceptable for LibreWolf's default engine. Bangs are incredibly useful!
Kagi (paid) advertises a huge list of bangs with the option to customise them yourself.
Searxng uses bangs but you have to double them up (i.e. !!aur btop or !!ddg search).
I love how your first example was AUR.
I use arch BTW.
I started to try and use kagi a few weeks ago. It has bangs.
Kagi is giving out money to Yandex, which is Russian.
Is that one a paid service? Have heard good things about it but never tried.
Yes it’s paid, but the quality is worlds above Bing, DDG, or Google. The best description I can make is that it’s what Google Search was about 15 years ago, back when there were no AI results, no ads, no artificially promoted results, and you could vote on results and block domains from appearing in your searches. Back when Google Search was actually good.
So it doesn’t do anything new or groundbreaking, it’s just what a search engine is supposed to be, in a time when every other option has abandoned that goal in the endless search for more revenue.
I've seen so many people talking about it that I tried the free trial. It has been giving good enough results. My reference is usually duck dck go since that's what I've used for years, and I only fall back to google when really need to expand my search, but google has been so useless about almost everything that anything else is a win.
I'm not sure if I'll pay or keep using or not, but for now I activated it as the default on my browsers and devices to get a feeling.
I like the idea of a proper business where the business model is clear and where they are making their money. They even have changelogs with their updates and it seems they keep improving things focused on the user, which is nice.
Here's a 30day free trial with their professional tier
Subscription search seems at odds with privacy.
They came out with this feature recently that makes any sort of tracking technically impossible:
I'm currently using Startpage, which is dutch
I also use them, and have liked the results.
Andisearch admitts, among other commands, also !bangs
Andi is 100% free and anonymous, no logs, no ads, no tracking, random proxie, sandboxed results.