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I think they copied DuckDuckGo's bangs.

It's nowhere in the documentation, and the UI never indicates it, but bang searches (like `!stackoverflow parse html with regex`) work in Brave Search exactly as they do in DuckDuckGo.

Preliminary testing of mine suggests that they just copied DuckDuckGo's list directly–I tried a few obscure ones from DDG, like `!ldss` or `!uib`, and they work in Brave Search.

@w0ts0n any details you are willing to share?

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We support many shebangs, with more to come in the future. For now, this is what is offered:

!i - Search Images

!n - Search News

!a - Amazon

!b - Bing

!d - DuckDuckGo

!e - eBay

!g - Google

!p - Pinterest

!r - Reddit

!s - StartPage

!w - Wikipedia

!li - LinkedIn

!gh - GitHub

!gm - Google Maps

!so - Stack Overflow

!tw - Twitter

!yt - YouTube

!wa - Wolfram Alpha

!mj - Mojeek

!osm - Open Street Map

!mdn - Mozilla Developer Network

If that's all that's offered, why does DDG's obscure shebangs work on Brave Search?

https://search.brave.com/search?q=!hn+brave+search

Oh, apologies for the confusion. We support DDG's shebangs too; the above list is what we add to the list.

No worries. Congrats on the launch.

!g is called a bang.

A shebang is something else ('#!').

Out of that list, the only two bangs that DuckDuckGo doesn’t support are:

- !d (it’s already DuckDuckGo, so !d is “dictionary”)

- !mj (it’s !mojeek)

Are the !a and !e bangs for Amazon and eBay defaulting to .com and if yes, is there a way to get them to default to e.g. amazon.de?

!g is called a bang. A shebang is '#!'.

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