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Seriously, I'm surprised at how many devs haven't seen DuckDuckGo's bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

I use them all the time for work. !mdn for MDN, !dnab for .NET, !npm for NPM, !py3 for Python3 docs, !debman for Debian Manpages, !w for Wikipedia, !a for Amazon, !g for Google when you really need it.

I'm not affiliated with DDG; I just really, really love it.

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This really feels like someone living in an echo chamber. Asking my extended family if they've ever used DDG or even heard of it would yield very low numbers and I have a large extended family. Most users don't even know you can use things within Google search like "site:" to attempt to control the results.

Just look at that list of bangs you provided. It's a techie/dev's wet dream of sources. Not one of them is something somebody's mom is going to give one iota of a concern about.

This exists in Google too with just writing “MDN” at the end of your query.

Bangs are no not "asking the search engine to return all page of a particular website" but rather "directly use the search engine of that particular website".

It's a bit using the a particular search engine from your browser.

Right but at the end it has mostly the same effect.

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