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I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts.

It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :(

I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and feed my input to this search engine.

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”Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for
!w filter bubble
will take you directly to Wikipedia... [DDG offers] 13,505 bangs and counting...”

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Not exactly a search engine, but maybe you mean surfraw? https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw

Sounds like DuckDuckGo?

Cuil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

alfred?

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