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Comment by RodericDay | Hacker News Reader

with ddg set as default, i just type

    !hn google skews results

into my address bar and i get the story

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What does the exclamation point do?

I think it forces the search to hacker news

On google you'd type this for the same behavior:

  site:news.ycombinator.com google skews

Except you don't need to, you can just type "hn" because google knows hn means you want the hacker news website results

Duck duck go could provide the same behavior if they displayed the top search result of "!<first word> search" when I type "<first word> search" if it realizes <first word> is one of these popular keywords or a synonym

It doesn't search HN, rather it redirects you to the search at hn.algolia.com. The same works for many other sites. So for example "foo doesn't work !so" redirects to Stack Overflow search for "foo doesn't work" and "Foo !wfi" redirects to Finnish Wikipedia search for "Foo".

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