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Comment by ColanR | Hacker News Reader

There's all kinds of awesome 'bangs'. I realized it's actually easier to use the variety of google/bing search engines from ddg.

google scholar: !gsc

google images: !gi

bing: !b

Bing should have been !bing and !b should have been reserved from something more useful, like butternut squash recipes.

Not only is this funny, it's very true.

I work in IT, and even the most computer illiterate people generally can't get tricked into using Bing.

..except by putting a privacy skin around it

Bing's video search is actually surprisingly good. Some of my friends have told me that it's a lot better for porn than Google.

That's the only (positive) thing I ever hear about Bing.

Wait until you go to China and you will love Bing. That is unless you enjoy turning on and off VPNs

You can make your own and submit them too. It's all written in gasp PERL.

!pw generates password :)

I was curious what type of hash I would get and !pw took me to pricewatch.com. What am I missing here?

It seems you just need to say 'strong password' now.

I find it easier to create keyword searches in Firefox

My favorites:

etymology dictionary: !etym

encyclopedia of integer sequences: !oeis

There is even !hn

mdn: !mdn

wikipedia: !wiki

django: !django

python: !py

All sorts of them for your average developer.

Wikipedia is also just !w

!wikt is also very useful for wiktionary

or even !wt